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Deserted medieval farmstead 420m south of Gout House Farm is a scheduled ancient monument located in Somerset, England. The site represents the earthwork remains of a medieval agricultural settlement that was abandoned at an unknown date during the medieval period. The physical evidence survives as buried archaeological deposits and associated field systems that testify to past patterns of settlement and land use in the locality. Such deserted farmsteads form an important category of medieval settlement archaeology, providing evidence of the dispersed rural economy and changes in population distribution that characterised medieval England.
Deserted medieval farmstead 420m south of Gout House Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011133. View the official record →
Deserted medieval farmstead 420m south of Gout House Farm is a scheduled ancient monument located in Somerset, England.
Deserted medieval farmstead 420m south of Gout House Farm is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1011133.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows on Shiplate Slait (5.4 km), Bowl barrow on Shiplate Slait (5.4 km), Medieval estate boundary earthwork on Shute Shelve Hill (5.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Deserted medieval farmstead 420m south of Gout House Farm'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.
Deserted medieval farmstead 420m south of Gout House Farm stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.