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Medieval settlement remains at Crafton is a scheduled ancient monument comprising the earthwork traces of a deserted medieval village located in Buckinghamshire. The site preserves ridge and furrow field systems and settlement features dating to the medieval period, representing the physical legacy of agricultural and domestic occupation that was subsequently abandoned. The remains provide archaeological evidence of the settlement patterns and land use characteristic of medieval rural England. Such deserted settlement sites are valuable for understanding the social and economic organisation of medieval communities and the processes of village abandonment and landscape change.
Medieval settlement remains at Crafton is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1409200. View the official record →
Medieval settlement remains at Crafton is a scheduled ancient monument comprising the earthwork traces of a deserted medieval village located in Buckinghamshire.
Medieval settlement remains at Crafton 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 1409200.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including A small multivallate hillfort on Southend Hill (4.1 km), Settlement N of St Mary's Church, Puttenham (4.5 km), Moated site immediately east of All Saint's Church (4.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Medieval settlement remains at Crafton'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.
Medieval settlement remains at Crafton stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.