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Lower Thurvaston medieval settlement is a scheduled ancient monument located in Derbyshire that preserves evidence of medieval agricultural and domestic occupation. The site includes earthwork remains associated with the open field system that characterised medieval manorial agriculture in the East Midlands, featuring ridge and furrow cultivation patterns typical of the period. The settlement itself dates to the medieval period, with the visible archaeology reflecting the layout and organisation of a functioning rural community whose economy was based upon arable farming within the communal field strips. The monument demonstrates the physical legacy of the manorial system and open field agriculture that dominated the English landscape from the Anglo-Norman period through to the early modern enclosures.
Lower Thurvaston medieval settlement, including part of the open field system is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017362. View the official record →
Lower Thurvaston medieval settlement is a scheduled ancient monument located in Derbyshire that preserves evidence of medieval agricultural and domestic occupation. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017362.
Lower Thurvaston medieval settlement, including part of the open 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 1017362.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Sharrow Hall moated site and associated road, driveway, dovecote, enclosures and ridge and furrow (0.5 km), Shrunken medieval village and moated site at Thurvaston (1.4 km), Barton Blount medieval settlement remains, including a chapel, decoy pond and part of the open field system, 340m north of Barton Hall (3.5 km).
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