Monument record MLI41082 - Toynton All Saints Settlement

Summary

The settlement of Toynton All Saints has its origins in the late Anglo-Saxon period, and survives to the present.

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The settlement of Toynton All Saints has its origins in the late Anglo-Saxon period, and survives to the present. Toynton was known as 'Totintun' at the time of the Domesday Book, and means 'the farmstead or village associated with or called after Tota' from the Old English personal noun 'Tota', with the Old English connective participle 'ing' and Old English 'tun'. {1} In the Domesday Book there is mention of '3 carucates of land assessed to the geld. There is land for 3 teams. 14 villeins and 13 sokemen have 3 teams there. There is a church there, and 30 acres of meadow, and 5 and a half acres of underwood'. {2} Toynton was the centre of a thriving pottery industry, thought to have been established some time after 1200. Toynton All Saints and Toynton Saint Peter first appear to be referred to separately in documentary records in 1254, although the Poll Tax returns of 1377 return Toynton All Saints and Toynton Saint Peter together. At that time there were 183 households. {3} A thick layer of 14th and 15th century pottery with signs of a clay floor was revealed in 1954, during bulldozing of a site for residential development (PRN 41082a - TF 3915 6375). The layer was interpreted as a kiln and waster dump site. The pottery is in Lincoln museum, where some of it was dated to around 1560. {4}{5}{6} A probable 16th century pottery kiln was found during site clearance on Peasegate Lane (PRN 41082b - TF 3929 6389). The site comprised a brick floor laid on a layer of panchean sherds, indicating that this area was the site of at least two successive kilns. An associated waster heap was also found. {7}{8}{9} A large pottery waster pit was exposed by the cutting of a drive to a new house just to the north of the church (PRN 41082c - TF 3928 6381). The pit was excavated by Lincoln Museum in 1976 and a large quantity of late medieval sherds were found. {10}{11}{12} Medieval kiln material and pottery were found in 1959, when groundworks were dug to house a new septic tank, on high ground to the north of the church (PRN 41082d - TF 3926 6385). Finds included pancheons, butter pots, jugs, cooking pots and green glaze sherds with applied clay strip work. A waster pit, found adjacent to the kiln in 1981, contained 15 to 20 whole or restorable jugs, ale jars and other fragments dating from the 15th and 16th centuries. {13}{14}{15}{16}{17}{18} Three pottery waster heaps were discovered in 1965, during ploughing to the south of Chapel Lane (PRN 41082e - TF 3935 6388). The heaps comprised material dating to the late 15th century, including a lead ampulla. Further waste heaps and similar pottery, including early post-medieval chafing dishes and flat dishes, were discovered after this land was converted to housing. {19}{20}{21} Pottery was found in the 1930s, in the field opposite Toynton All Saints church (PRN 41082f - TF 3926 6369). The date of the pottery was not stated, but was presumably of the medieval period. It has since been lost. {22}{23} Sherds of redeposited medieval pottery were recovered in July 1999, during the archaeological monitoring of development at 2 Fir Tree Cottages, Main Road (PRN 41082g - TF 3927 6371). The pottery was all of the locally made, 14th-15th century Toynton ware, and included a possible waster fragment. {24}{25} A small amount of redeposited medieval pottery was recovered in October 2001, during trial trenching at Water Mill Lane (PRN 41082h - TF 3924 6374). The pottery was quite abraded, and was largely of the locally made Toynton ware. {26}{27} Two ditches of probable medieval date were recorded in April 2002, during the archaeological monitoring of new development on land adjacent to Hillcrest, Main Road (PRN 41082i - TF 3914 6394). The ditches were thought to represent former field boundaries, and whilst no dateable material was recovered from their fills, they were both sealed by a subsoil layer containing redeposited sherds of 13th to 17th century pottery. {28}{29} A substantial boundary ditch of probable medieval date was recorded in July 2003, during the archaeological monitoring of new development on land at Plot 8, Main Road (PRN 41082j - TF 3922 6385). The ditch measured at least 12m long by 2.9m wide, and was aligned on a south-west to north-east axis. Sherds of locally produced Toynton All Saints ware pottery, dating to between the 13th and early 16th centuries, were recovered from each of the three fills of the ditch. Pottery wasters and kiln furniture were also recovered from the ditch, and indicate that pottery was being manufactured in the vicinity. {30}{31} Evidence of medieval activity was identified in May 2014, during the excavation of a trial trench on land at Main Road (PRN 41082k - TF 3929 6365). A number of intercutting ditches and pits were excavated and the remains of several possible floor surfaces were identified. A large quantity of mostly locally produced Toynton ware pottery was recovered from many of the features, with the assemblage being dominated by material of a domestic nature, although some of the fragments indicate that pottery production was occuring in the vicinity. The features were thought to represent domestic activity, with the ditches interpreted as former drainage channels or boundary markers, and the pits interpreted as small scale domestic refuse deposits. {32}{33} Traces of possible medieval ridge and furrow were identified in April 2016, during magnetometry survey of land at 9 Main Road (PRN 41082l - TF 3930 6406). The remains were identified as a series of parallel linear magnetic anomalies, aligned on an east to west axis. {34}{35} The remains of a probable former field boundary were recorded in September 2016, during subsequent trial trenching of the 9 Main Road site. The feature was aligned on an east to west axis, running broadly parallel to the pattern of existing boundaries in this area, and thus suggesting a medieval origin for the boundary. No finds were recovered from the fill of the feature, however, and its exact date remains unconfirmed. {36}{37}

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  •  Bibliographic Reference: Kenneth Cameron. 1998. A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. p.128.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: C.W. Foster and T. Longley. 1924. Lincolnshire Domesday and Lindsey Survey. vol.19, p.76.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Graham Platts. 1985. Land and People in Medieval Lincolnshire. p.130-2.
  •  Index: Lincolnshire County Council. Sites and Monuments Record Card Index. TF 36 SE: W.
  •  Artefact: City and County Museum Collection. LM 229.77.
  •  Unpublished Document: Healey, Hilary. 1978. Toynton All Saints. Site 4.
  •  Index: Lincolnshire County Council. Sites and Monuments Record Card Index. TF 36 SE: BH.
  •  Article in Serial: A.J. White (ed.). 1980. 'Archaeology in Lincolnshire and South Humberside, 1979' in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. vol.15, p.79.
  •  Artefact: City and County Museum Collection. LM 141.79.
  •  Index: Lincolnshire County Council. Sites and Monuments Record Card Index. TF 36 SE: AD.
  •  Article in Serial: A.J. White (ed.). 1977. 'Archaeology in Lincolnshire and South Humberside, 1976' in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. vol.12, p.78.
  •  Artefact: City and County Museum Collection. LM 31.76, LM 142.79.
  •  Index: Lincolnshire County Council. Sites and Monuments Record Card Index. TF 36 SE: AT.
  •  Article in Serial: A.J. White (ed.). 1982. 'Archaeology in Lincolnshire, 1981' in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. vol.17, p.72.
  •  Index: 1959. EAST MIDLANDS ARCHAEOLOGICAL BULLETIN. vol.2, p.11.
  •  Unpublished Document: Healey, Hilary. 1978. Toynton All Saints. Site 5.
  •  Index: Lincolnshire County Council. Sites and Monuments Record Card Index. TF 36 SE: BI.
  •  Index: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Card Index. TF 36 SE: 10.
  •  Index: Lincolnshire County Council. Sites and Monuments Record Card Index. TF 36 SE: U.
  •  Index: 1966. EAST MIDLANDS ARCHAEOLOGICAL BULLETIN. vol.9, pp.31-4.
  •  Unpublished Document: Healey, Hilary. 1978. Toynton All Saints. Site 6.
  •  Index: Lincolnshire County Council. Sites and Monuments Record Card Index. TF 36 SE: AY.
  •  Unpublished Document: Healey, Hilary. 1978. Toynton All Saints. Site 10.
  •  Report: Archaeological Project Services. 2000. 2 Fir Tree Cottages, Main Road, Toynton All Saints. APS site code: TMR99.
  •  Report: Archaeological Project Services. 2000. 2 Fir Tree Cottages, Main Road, Toynton All Saints. LCNCC 167.99.
  •  Report: Lindsey Archaeological Services. 2001. Water Mill Lane, Toynton All Saints. LAS site code: TWM01.
  •  Archive: Lindsey Archaeological Services. 2001. Water Mill Lane, Toynton All Saints. LCNCC 2001.295.
  •  Report: Archaeological Project Services. 2002. Land Adjacent to Hillcrest, Main Road, Toynton All Saints. APS site code: TMH02.
  •  Archive: Archaeological Project Services. 2002. Land Adjacent to Hillcrest, Main Road, Toynton All Saints. LCNCC 2002.150.
  •  Report: Archaeological Project Services. 2004. Plot 8, Main Road, Toynton All Saints. APS site code: TRM03.
  •  Archive: Archaeological Project Services. 2004. Plot 8, Main Road, Toynton All Saints. LCNCC 2003.262.
  •  Report: Archaeological Project Services. 2014. Main Road, Toynton All Saints. APS site code: TOMR13.
  •  Archive: Archaeological Project Services. 2014. Main Road, Toynton All Saints. LCNCC 2013.188.
  •  Report: Allen Archaeology Ltd. 2016. Land at 9 Main Road, Toynton All Saints. AAL site code: TOYM 16.
  •  Archive: Allen Archaeology Ltd. 2016. Land at 9 Main Road, Toynton All Saints. LCNCC 2016.39.
  •  Report: Allen Archaeology Ltd. 2016. Land at 9 Main Road, Toynton All Saints. AAL site code: TOYM17.
  •  Archive: Allen Archaeology Ltd. 2016. Land at 9 Main Road, Toynton All Saints. LCNCC 2017.43.

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Grid reference Centred TF 3926 6390 (337m by 710m) Estimated from sources
Civil Parish TOYNTON ALL SAINTS, EAST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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