Barbury Castle Farm deserted Medieval village
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Scheduled Monument
- List Entry Number:
- 1013415
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jan-1990
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- Heritage Category:
- Scheduled Monument
- List Entry Number:
- 1013415
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jan-1990
Location
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ogbourne St. Andrew
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 15157 75813
Reasons for Designation
The village was a significant component of the rural landscape of Medieval England. Those which were deserted during the Middle Ages have consequently been undisturbed by later occupation and provide an important source of information on Medieval demography, subsistence and settlement patterns. The Barbury Castle Farm village is an exceptionally well-preserved example of its type and its unusual elevated downland situation makes it particularly rare and important. Its significance is enhanced by its proximity to Barbury Castle hillfort and Romano-British occupation deposits which provide evidence for the changing nature of land-use through time.
Details
The monument includes the sites of a deserted Medieval village together with traces of Romano-British occupation. The Medieval village earthworks include well-preserved and extensive building platforms, hollow ways and associated enclosures and plots. The earthworks are sharply defined and survive up to 1.5m in height. Limited excavation and stray finds have shown that the village was occupied in the 12th and 13th centuries AD. Traces of earlier Romano-British settlement underlying the Medieval village have been located during excavation and from metal-detecting. These indicate the presence of occupation of the 3rd and 4th centuries AD in close proximity to the earthworks.
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Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 11510
- Legacy System:
- RSM
Sources
Books and journals
Grinsell, LV, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume V, (1957)
Crawford, O G S, Keiller. A, , Wessex from the Air, (1928)
Other
Pattison, P., Excavations at Barbury Castle Farm 1983: Interim Report, Pagination 198
Legal
This monument is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 as amended as it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance. This entry is a copy, the original is held by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
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