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Summary

A good clear site with the usual network of sunken roads and rectangular house enclosure and crofts. The Manor site comprises a very extensive moat with large earthworks.

Monument Type(s):

• DESERTED SETTLEMENT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status:

• Scheduled Monument Cambridgeshire 162: Deserted village of Boughton, NW of Manor Farm

Full description

R4, The deserted village of Boughton. In 1279 it had 6 villeins and 13 cottars according to the Hundred Rolls. In 1316 it was linked with Diddington.
O1, The whole area is covered with banks and ditches of some antiquity but nothing recognizable as remains of a village. Features could be gravel workings and drainage and it is impossible to be certain.
O2, The remains are typical DMV with many garden enclosures visible but few building sites. The main occupation area appears to have been on the valley floor and the enclosures here are distinguished by much subdivision, encroached on by ridge and furrow, suggesting it is very early. Also ridge and furrow to the W but it ends uniformly against a ditch which delimits the village on that side. At the SE corner of the site on the most dominant part of the ridge is a strongly ditched, defensive enclosure of generally rectangular form, so mutilated by gravel digging that its character could be questioned. The enclosed area measures 115.0m by 60.0m at its widest and 35.0m at its narrowest. One sherd of St Neots ware pottery found in a mole hill (OS, 25/11/1982). Surveyed at 1:2500on MSD.
R1, Deserted village. (R Palmer 14/07/1983, CUCAP AP AZX 42 used).
R5, Part of a possible curvilinear enclosure with parallel ditched entrance. Some possibly geological or recent field boundaries. Plotted at 1:10000. (R Palmer 01/11/1991, Air Photo Services AP91,55/15 used).

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