More information : (Area centred TA 19431166). Very broken ground at Stallingborough.
Looks like medieval work. (1)
A small medieval jug and other medieval pottery, also a quern, found
in 1958. In Lincoln Museum, acc. nos 48-49.59. (2)
Ground disturbances in the area indicated consist of drainage ditches, old field boundaries and dried-up ponds. The earthworks form no clear pattern, contain no building sites and probably represent a depopulated western fringe of Stallingborough Village.(3)
Centred TA 195115. Site of Stallingborough Shrunken Medieval Village. Domesday records three or more mills, 4.5 salterns and a slaughterhouse. There were one hundred and fifty households in 1563.
Earthworks, crop- and soil-marks extend from Little London
(TA 187118) in the west to the east end of Stallingborough village (TA 208120) - over 100 ha, making it the largest single area of deserted Medieval settlement in South Humberside. The earthworks are particularly well preserved in the area south of the church (centred on TA 195115) and east of Little London Farm (centred on
TA 191119). (4)
TA 195118. Possible site of Old Ayscough (Askew) Manor within the
Shrunken Medieval Village, adjacent to the church. The ruined wing of the Manor was recorded as still extant in 1834. Excavations in 1970 by A Tailby revealed wall foundations dated to 1750, when the manor was rebuilt with stone from the church which fell down at that time; finds in Immingham Museum.
TA 193116. The earthworks here were levelled in 1978 but not
ploughed. Middle Saxon to 18th century pottery was recovered from
three areas, only medieval pottery from a fourth; there were also
quantities of cobbles, some chalk stone and many padstones. One area
produced limestone quoins, hand-made bricks and rib-tiles. (5)
TA 195115. Stallingborough SMV. Scheduled.
In 1979 under the threat of ploughing, the Ancient Monuments Board for England recommended the serving of an Interim Preservation Notice on the site. (6-7)
The fields around Stallingborough Church were formerly full of
earthworks. Following the levelling of those west of the church in
1978, a survey was undertaken of those surviving around, and to the
south of, the church. A sketch plot has been produced of the
destroyed area from air-photographs taken before the event. (a)
The earthworks are of two sorts: the majority are medieval and later
village remains consisting of a street network, house sites and
closes, but immediately west and north of the church lie earthworks
of much larger size representing the site of a post medieval manor
house (or houses) of aristocratic pretensions and an extensive formal
garden layout.
Rectangular earthwork closes on the south periphery of the village
contain traces of ridge and furrow: these mark land being taken out
of arable use. In the ploughed field to the west, it is possible that the opposite process, converting former occupation closes to cultivation, took place at some stage. The documented settlement
history of the village is also remarkably complex, with phases of
decline in population and subsequent recovery indicated. (8)
TA 195115. Stallingborough SMV. Amendment to scheduled area. (9)
Earthwork survey undertaken 1978. The majority of earthworks are Medieval and later, forming a coherent pattern of streets and houses. Earthworks of a post-Medieval manor house or houses and of a formal garden also exist. Desertion probably continued into the later 18th century. (10)
The Medieval settlement remains and the Post Medieval house and
garden remains described by source 10 have also been mapped at
1:10,000 scale from air photographs as part of the RCHME:
Lincolnshire NMP. (11)
TA 19461169. The 1978 survey revealed 2 main groups of earthworks. One represents streets, buildings and closes, laid out in the medieval period while the other comprises the remains of a post medieval manor house and associated formal gardens. Part of the main street of the medieval village survives as Pinfold Lane and continues across the south of the site as a hollow way. A number of additional hollow ways represent further streets and all are flanked by the remains of medieval and post medieval properties, defined by banks and/or ditches and building platforms. Further enclosures to the rear represent small paddocks or crofts. Some of these enclosures show traces of ridge and furrow, suggesting that the properties across the southern half of the site were laid out over former open fields, possibly during the 16th century expansion of the village. The site of the manor house lies north west of the church and survives as a broad terrace. A large depression at the western end of this terrace represents the cellars of a wing which was added to the manor house in the early 18th century. The house was demolished between 1842 and 1844. North of the terrace lie the earthwork remains of the formal gardens, thought to have been laid out in the first quarter of the 17th century. Scheduled. (12) |