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THE SETTLEMENT OF SCOTTON IS CONSISTENTLY DOCUMENTED AS A LARGER-THAN- AVERAGE SETTLEMENT FROM THE LATE C11 AND SHOWS NO SIGNS OF MARKED OR PERMANENT DECLINE, AND LITTLE INDEED OF GROWTH. THE VILLAGE'S COMPLEX MORPHOLOGY, STABILISED BY ALL BUT ONE OF THE FARMS HAVING REMAINED WITHIN IT, MIGHT SUPERFICIALLY BE CATEGORISED AS AN ACCRETIVE LOOP FORM. BOTH THE HIGH EARLY POPULATION AND THE SURER INTERPRETATION OF SIMILAR EXAMPLES ELSEWHERE MAKE THIS UNLIKELY. IT SEEMS RATHER TO BE BASED UPON THE ABUTMENT OF TWO (OR THREE) PRINCIPAL ELEMENTS:- AN EAST-WEST AXIS OF GRAPPLE LANE, EASTGATE AND THE CHURCH AND OLD MANOR SITE; A NORTH-SOUTH AXIS OF WESTGATE, POSSIBLY WIDENING INTO A GREEN AT ITS SOUTH END; AND THE SOUTH LOOP ROAD AND THE SECOND MANOR SITE (PERHAPS PART OF THE NORTH-SOUTH ELEMENT). {1}~, HTM 12M
An earthwork survey in 1998 at circa SK8868 9886 recorded a broad ditch which may be part of a medieval water management system involving an extant pond at circa SK8865 9885 and an infilled pond shown on the 1907 Ordnance Survey map at circa SK8862 9897.{4}{5}
Fourteenth to fifteenth century pottery and a whetstone were recovered during trial trenching in 1999 at circa SK8868 9886.{6}{7} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 1066 - 1499 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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