Monument record MLI51136 - DESERTED SETTLEMENT REMAINS OF OSGODBY

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DESERTED SETTLEMENT REMAINS OF OSGODBY

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The earthwork remains of the deserted hamlet and monastic grange at Osgodby were levelled in 1957, and in 1964 were under crop. {1}{2} Osgodby appears to have been one of two hamlets in Bardney which were converted into monastic granges in the 12th century. The site lies in the north-east of the parish in an area which included much managed woodland until this century. The farmland here was divided between the settlements of Osgodby and Butyate, both named in Domesday Book. All but a fragment of the earthworks of Osgodby were levelled in 1957. In 1086 Osgodby was sokeland of the manor of Bardney held by Gilbert de Gant. Before 1212 the family of de Gant granted their interest to Bardney Abbey. The abbey subsequently held Osgodby and Butyate as part of its home demesne until the dissolution, and this status resulted in there being little or no reference to them. The minimum recorded population of 16 sokemen at Osgodby in 1086 is the only figure available for this settlement. The field remains are poor. Only west of the through road does a single pasture field preserve some fragments of earthworks, which comprise ditches defining roughly rectangular closes in part overlying ridge-and-furrow. There are no remains of identifiable buildings or yards, and the closes are not obviously served by a street, unless by the present road - a theory possibly supported by a scatter of medieval pottery along its east side (south-west of the farm). To the east of Lodge Farm, on the other side of the present street, evidence from aerial photography and a scatter of medieval pottery shows that the settlement extended down the slope to a stream. A hollow way appears to have entered this area from the south, probably providing a direct link with Butyate less than 1km away. The crop and soil-marks fall into no readily analysable form but some appear to overlie earlier arable. There may have been two settlement nuclei served by separate roads which could perhaps have been only part of a dispersed 11th century settlement pattern of sokemen, which in effect reasserted itself in the scattered farmsteads of the post medieval period after a phase of nucleation under monastic influence. {3}

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  •  Index: OS CARD INDEX. BARDNEY. TF 17 SW:5,1964, HARPER F R.
  •  Index: SMR FILE. BARDNEY. TF 17 SW:A,1929, PHILLIPS, C.W..
  •  Bibliographic Reference: P.L. Everson, C.C. Taylor and C.J. Dunn. 1991. Change and Continuity: Rural Settlement in North-West Lincolnshire. p64;Figs10,49;ARCHV.NOTES.
  •  Aerial Photograph: J.K.S. St Joseph. 1945-79. Cambridge University Collection. PG 82-86,1955, .
  •  Map: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1992-1996. National Mapping Programme. TF1272-1372:LI.580.2.1-7,1994, .
  •  Aerial Photograph: 1945-84. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY COLLECTION. AQR13,1967, .

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Grid reference Centred TF 1302 7277 (617m by 670m) Centre
Civil Parish BARDNEY, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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