More information : TF 120695. Settlement and peripheral remains of Bardney. Settlement
earthworks are visible on early APs (a) at TF 119697; when levelled
in 1977 they produced some Medieval and much Post-Medieval pottery
related to visible house platforms. A former road from TF 1176 6930
to TF 1187 6943 that appears in the maps of 1757 is now obliterated.
There are documentary references to Medieval chapels of St Andrew and
St Leonard, and many reports of architectural stonework or
foundations around the village. It is possible that the Medieval
settlement focused on a triangular market green whose E tip partly
survives at TF 1203 6939 but which extended W so that Abbey Lane
entered its NW corner. (1)
The Medieval settlement described by authority 1 at TF 119 697,
was visible as earthworks on good quality air photographs, but the
house platforms were not visible. It consists of a group of crofts,
centred at TF 1195 6970, forming a linear system of 9 ditched
enclosures on average 80m by 40m.
There is a large pond, 45m by 10m, at TF 1190 6978, and several
smaller circular ponds, between 3m-10m in diameter, scattered
throughout the crofts. To the east of the crofts, at TF 1204 6977,
is ridge and furrow, 90m in length. These earthworks have been
levelled.
(Morph No. LI.577.1.1-4)
This description is based on data from the RCHME MORPH2 database.
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