A place in Lincolnshire with a history you can trace through the records: its entry in the 1086 Domesday Book, the archaeological finds and scheduled monuments around it, and the nearest Roman sites and battlefields. Everything below is drawn from the historical record.
In 1086, Moulton was held by Ivo Tallboys.
When William the Conqueror's commissioners surveyed Moulton in 1086, they recorded 2 manors held by Ivo Tallboys and Guy of Craon. Before the Conquest, in the time of King Edward, the land was held by Earl Algar and Aethelstan (son of Godram).
The settlement was assessed at 11.99 hides for tax. There was land for 25.1 ploughs, with 20.5 plough teams at work. The recorded population was 83 heads of household: 37 villagers, 20 smallholders and 26 freemen. These are heads of household, so the settlement's true population was several times larger.
The Domesday Book was the great survey of England ordered by William the Conqueror in 1085 and completed in 1086, the oldest surviving public record in the country. How the survey worked →
Moulton was one of the settlements recorded in Lincolnshire in the 1086 survey. Lincolnshire in the Domesday survey →
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Moulton's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
132 recorded finds have been logged within about 5 miles of Moulton, reported by members of the public and entered in the national record of archaeological finds. They span these periods:
The bedrock beneath Moulton is West Walton Formation, Ampthill Clay Formation And Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Undifferentiated) (Kimmeridgian).
Aubrey's full report for this location includes every Domesday manor, the complete record of medieval lordship, archaeological context, and the story of how this settlement evolved from 1086 to the present day.