![]() ![]() Published in Medieval Archaeology, 51, 2007. We’re talking about the largest excavation of a medieval site in Norway outside of the still existing towns, says Hansen. The results also highlight the extent to which undisturbed medieval depostis can survive within CORS. German and Dutch pots, jugs and mugs, coins including an American penny, spindles, a sheep skull, and horse teeth have been Discovered by archaeologists digging in the Scottish Borders, where doors integrated into walls have revealed a lost Medieval village of families, farmyards and hearths. ![]() In Australia, an abandoned settlement that has infrastructure remaining is synonymous with ghost town. Others when the settlement was abandoned for any number of other reasons such as recurring natural disasters such as bushfires or changed circumstances. Results are presented from three of the then most-intensively investigated settlements which identify new foci of occupation and propse new ideas about their development. Some towns have been lost or moved when dams are built. In the Kirkby grounds the outline of the crofts, tofts and a buried fish pond of a lost medieval village were traced. The village was finally dissolved around 1600 to make place for the formal Jacobean Garden. The project combines existing methods with new approaches to reveal a considerable quantity of new evidence for the development of medieval rural settlement. In 1086 six households were registered in Doomsday, five villagers and one smallholder. This paper reviews the results of the first year of the programme when 1m square ‘test pit’ excavations were carreid out within thirteen CORS in eastern England were carried out in 20 as part of an ongoing widening participation and outreach scheme - the Higher Education Field Academy - run from of the department of Archaeology of the University of Cambridge. Remains of a Norman motte and bailey castle at the lost village of Alstoe, in Rutland, England In the United Kingdom, a deserted medieval village ( DMV ) is a former settlement which was abandoned during the Middle Ages, typically leaving no trace apart from earthworks or cropmarks. The high-speed train is due to dissect the country, cutting down travel time for the modern commuter. The project aims to help redress that balance in favour of the still-inhabited majority. During the medieval period villages were abandoned for many reasons including the clearance of land to make hunting parks, build monastic houses, enclose lands for sheep farming, the effects of plague. Remains of Britains abandoned villages could be lost during construction of HS2 railway line. (Grid references are given, where known.This paper presents the aims and methods of an archaeological programme intended to investigate the historic development of currently occupied rural settlements (CORS), previously largely neglected in favour of the minority of rural settlements which have become deserted or substantially shrunken. The ruins of All Saints Church at Godwick, which was abandoned when the village died. There are estimated to be as many as 3,000 DMVs in England alone. A good example is the lost village of Godwick in Norfolk. This list is of deserted medieval villages (DMVs), "shrunken" villages and other settlements known to have been "lost" or significantly reduced in size over the centuries. ![]()
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