Record Details
| NHER Number: | 11758 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Didlington deserted medieval village |
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Summary
The site of Didlington deserted medieval village. House sites are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book, but declined in the 17th century due to the lord of the manor buying up the land. A scatter of Roman pottery fragments found in 1980 show the area as one of early settlement.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 776 970 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79NE |
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| Parish: | DIDLINGTON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
The earthwork and cropmark banks and ditches relating to Didlington possible medieval settlement remains and further features identified from the Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AIM) survey, are now recorded under NHER 63055.
Fields west of parish church, formerly parkland.
Cropmarks of Deserted Medieval Village, showing clear house sites divided by roads, running approximately north to south.
Checked by E. Rose (NAU) 1 November 1976.
This village was mentioned in (S1) and in (S2). It had 34 taxpayers in 1334.
(S3) records only three or four farmhouses.
April 1980.
Eastern part of cropmark site. Found on surface of ploughed field..
Scatter of Roman coarse pottery.
Seen by A. Gregory (NAU) 18 April 1980.
A. Gregory (NAU) 21 April 1980.
See report in file for 4821 by [1] which gives full documentary references to the village showing its decline in the 17th century due to the buying up of land by the lord of the manor.
May 2019. Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The earthwork and cropmark banks and ditches relating to Didlington possible medieval settlement remains and further features identified from the Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AIM) survey, are now recorded under NHER 63055.
J.Powell (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 13 May 2019.
Monument Types
- DESERTED SETTLEMENT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SITE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: TL 7796A,B, TL 7797A, TL 7897A. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 79 NE 7 [4]. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Publication: Brown, P (ed.). 1984. Domesday Book: Norfolk. Parts 1 and 2. |
| <S2> | Monograph: Nomina Villarum. |
| <S3> | Serial: Blomefield, F.. 1805-1810. An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk.. Volume Unknown. |
| <S4> | Article in Serial: Davison, A.. 1994. Didlington.. The Annual. Norfolk Archaeological and Historical Research Group.. No 3, p 17. |
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