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Colemore Deserted Medieval Village is a scheduled ancient monument located in Hampshire that represents the remains of a settlement abandoned during the medieval period. The site comprises earthworks and field features including house platforms, ridge and furrow cultivation patterns, and other structural traces that indicate sustained habitation and agricultural use in the medieval era. Such deserted villages provide valuable archaeological evidence for understanding medieval settlement patterns, land use, and the social and economic factors that led to village abandonment, a phenomenon that occurred across England particularly from the fourteenth century onwards. The survival of these earthworks at Colemore contributes to the wider archaeological record of medieval rural life in Hampshire and the south of England.
Deserted medieval village at Colemore is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1001805. View the official record →
Colemore Deserted Medieval Village is a scheduled ancient monument located in Hampshire that represents the remains of a settlement abandoned during the medieval period.
Deserted medieval village at Colemore 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 1001805.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows 150m south east of the Club House on Petersfield Heath Common, part of the Petersfield Heath Group (9.2 km), Bowl barrow 160m south of the Club House on Petersfield Heath Common, part of the Petersfield Heath Group (9.2 km), Saucer barrow 220m south of the Club House on Petersfield Heath Common, part of the Petersfield Heath Group (9.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Deserted medieval village at Colemore'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 village at Colemore stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.