Site of the deserted medieval village of Dunstall, part of which is scheduled. It is a good quality site with the usual network of sunken roads and rectangular crofts with well preserved medieval ridge and furrow. The site of the manor house is clearly visible. It has an irregular shape and is surrounded by a large bank. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map as a Roman encampment. {1} The field in which the scheduled monument stands is at present under cultivation with standing wheat. The only visible earthwork is a raised irregular area, grassed over, apparently the site of the chapel. {2} Nothing is now visible from the ground except a hump in the centre of the field with a tree on it and a slight rise where the chapel is indicated. {3} Dunstall deserted medieval village includes the area of scheduled monument no.1004996. It has a network of sunken roads and rectangular crofts with ridge and furrow. The principal period of desertion occurred in the late 15th to early 16th century, presumably through conversion to pasture. {4}{5}{6} The village of Dunstall was separately assessed in 1334. In 1377, 23 people paid poll tax. Population trends suggest that the principal period of desertion, after depletions in the 14th century, was the late 15th century or early 16th century, presumably through conversion to pasture. In 1543 to 1544 just two taxpayers paid 2d between them. A church and priest were recorded as manorial appurtenances in Domesday book but not later: a chapel was subject to Corringham in 1277. The site retains the local name chapel yard and the location of a chapel building was said to have been visible in the mid 19th century. The well-preserved earthworks were destroyed in or shortly before 1979 despite being scheduled in part. Earlier plans and aerial photographs suggest that those on the south side of the river Eau constituted a large square manorial curia with internal subdivisions and as a centrepiece an embanked enclosure (once designated a 'roman camp'). The site of the chapel lies within this complex. Immediately on the north side of the river was a fishpond complex presumably associated with the manor, and along the south-facing slope hollow-ways, property plots and traces of building sites of the village. {7}{8}{9}{10}{11}{12} Much of the village remains had been levelled and ploughed by 1978, before the earthworks could be surveyed. {13}