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Little Carlton medieval village and part of the meadow field system is a scheduled ancient monument comprising the earthwork remains of a medieval settlement in Nottinghamshire. The site preserves ridge and furrow cultivation patterns and settlement features that date to the medieval period, offering evidence of medieval agricultural practice and village organisation. The monument demonstrates the characteristic landscape patterns of medieval open field farming, with the surviving earthworks providing archaeological testimony to both residential settlement and the associated field systems that sustained the community. The site's preservation as earthwork remains makes it significant for understanding medieval rural settlement patterns and land use in the East Midlands.
Little Carlton medieval village and part of the meadow field system is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019870. View the official record →
Little Carlton medieval village and part of the meadow field system is a scheduled ancient monument comprising the earthwork remains of a medieval settlement in Nottinghamshire.
Little Carlton medieval village and part of the meadow field system 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 1019870.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Civil War sconce 650m north west of Devon Bridge (3.9 km), Newark town wall (Lombard Street) (4.2 km), Standing cross known as Beaumond Cross (4.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Little Carlton medieval village and part of the meadow field system'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.
Little Carlton medieval village and part of the meadow field system stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.