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Description: | PRN 35386
The settlement of West Graby (East Graby is in Dowsby parish - see PRN 32920) is first mentioned in Domesday as land of Robert de Todeni, in the wapentake of Aveland. There was a manor, eleven acres of meadow, 209 acres of woodland for pannage, and at least six households.{1}
By 1563, there were only five households.{2}
The place-name Graby ('Greibi' in Domesday) may derive from the Old Norse 'grey', meaning 'bitch', or from the Old English 'graeg', meaning 'grey', combined with 'by', a village or farmstead.{3}{4}
Aerial photographs and the National Mapping Programme overlay show earthwork ridge and furrow, tofts and crofts, boundaries and trackways of both East and West Graby.{6}{7} A possible spring line running north/south at circa TF 2985 2963 may indicate the extent of the settlement to the east.{8}
A site visit to a development site centred on TF0985 2958 recorded hollows thought to result from small-scale quarrying, small mounds thought to be spoil or house platforms, and to the south of the site, ridge and furrow and a hollow way. A later geophysical survey recorded the above features and a possible earthwork bank along the lane to the north of the site.{8} Trial trenching, however, recorded only a medieval pit and ploughed out ridge and furrow.{9}
An archaeological watching brief to a new residential development identified a post medieval subsoil and pit.{10} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 1000 - 1539 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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