Monument record MLI50189 - SITE OF DESERTED SETTLEMENT OF HARDWICK OR THORPE

Summary

SITE OF DESERTED SETTLEMENT OF HARDWICK OR THORPE

Type and Period (3)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

THE PLOUGHED OUT REMAINS OF HARDWICK DMV, WEST OF GLENTWORTH WAS REPORTED TO THE SMR BY PAUL EVERSON IN 1977. {1} A RESERVOIR WAS EXCAVATED FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES IN 1992 BUT A SITE VISIT BY A B PAGE OF CITY AND COUNTY MUSEUM, LINCOLN COULD NOT CONFIRM REPORTS OF SAXON FINDS. {2} SHERDS OF C13 OR C14 POTTERY FROM GLENTWORTH IN LINCOLN MUSEUM. IN 1964 HARPER REPORTED THAT ETHEL RUDKIN HAD C12 TO C15 POTTERY FROM A SMALL AREA CENTRED TO SK93488760. LINCOLN MUSEUM ALSO HAD MEDIEVAL POTTERY FROM THE SAME AREA, PRESENTED BY MR J MORRIS. NOTHING OF INTEREST WAS FOUND DURING FIELDWALKING. {3}{4}~ MEDIEVAL POTTERY (SURFACE FINDS) FOUND IN DECEMBER 1953 BY MR J MORRIS. NOW IN LINCOLN MUSEUM. IN 1976 MR PROUDFOOT FOUND LEAD WEIGHTS, FRAGMENTS OF TWO MEDIEVAL LEAD SEALS, PART OF A BRONZE MEDIEVAL BUCKLE, AND A FRAGMENT OF AN UNDATED BRONZE OBJECT. {5}{6} SETTLEMENT REMAINS ARE VAGUELY RECORDED AS SOIL AND CROPMARKS ON APs OUTLINED BY RIDGE AND FURROW, AND FIELDWALKING HAS PRODUCED SPREADS OF BUILDING MATERIALS AND POTTERY PRINCIPALLY OF C12 AND C14 DATE. THIS MAY BE THE POORLY DOCUMENTED SETTLEMENT OF 'THORPE' - VARIOUSLY 'BUNTELTHORP' OR 'GLENTWORTH THORPE'. IT LIES WITHIN THE AREA OF THE WRAY'S DEER PARK, AND ITS DISAPPEARANCE MAY ACCOUNT FOR THE DEPOPULATION ALLEGED AGAINST THE WRAYS. {7}{8}{9}

Sources/Archives (10)

  •  Index: SMR FILE. GLENTWORTH. SK 98 NW:Q,1977, TMA.
  •  Verbal Communication: A.B. Page. 1992. -.
  •  Index: OS CARD INDEX. GLENTWORTH. SK 98 NW:5,1964, HARPER F R.
  •  Index: SMR FILE. GLENTWORTH. SK 98 NW:T,1983, D.E.S..
  •  Index: SMR FILE. GLENTWORTH. SK 98 NW:C,1976, RWH.
  •  Artefact: City and County Museum Collection. LM 111.53.
  •  Aerial Photograph: Paul Everson. 1975-90. RCHM. 5159/24-25,1977, .
  •  Aerial Photograph: Paul Everson. 1975-90. RCHM. 2937/16,19,1980, .
  •  Bibliographic Reference: P.L. Everson, C.C. Taylor and C.J. Dunn. 1991. Change and Continuity: Rural Settlement in North-West Lincolnshire. pVIII;ARCHIVE NOTES.
  •  Map: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1992-1996. National Mapping Programme. SK9387:LI.610.3.1-4,1994, .

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred SK 9346 8789 (405m by 547m) Centre
Civil Parish GLENTWORTH, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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