PRN 53765 The settlement is differentiated from Great Limber c.1115 and probably marked by separate Domesday Book entries. It presumably shared to some extent in the post Black Death decline of Brocklesby and its members but with 15 households nearly matched Brocklesby in 1563. It was the scene of one of the great depopulations reported in 1607: Richard Rochester had decayed all the farm houses thereby wasting or turning them into cottages and converted 300 acres of arable to pasture. Village earthworks lying principally west of Home Farm are recorded in low relief in pasture by aerial photographic survey in 1946 and partly as low earthworks. There were partly ploughed soilmarks in 1971, and the earthworks have been further reduced since then. {1}{2} An archaeological survey was undertaken on lands forming part of the Brocklesby Estate. The survey identified the low earthworks of Little Limber as toft like, irregular mounds. These were protected by pasture, although the site continued into adjacent cultivated fields. At TA12551040 a bank, probably a former wood bank, survives as a c.2m wide and c.1m high earthwork. It lies in pasture at its southern side and continues through current woodland and gardens to encircle the modern houses. In the field centred on TA126104 are three toft-like platforms, irregular in plan. These petered out in the field to the west. The earthworks also include an undated, possibly later, mound (PRN 50009) built on a low-lying platform. South-west of this platform the ground rises toward an arable field. Upon ploughing, this field regularly turns up chalk blocks, and these suggest the presence of former buildings and possibly a focus for Little Limber village. {3}