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Church (site of)

Ecclesiastical enclosure

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A curvilinear enclosure defined by two widely spaced fosses once surrounded the early church site, stretching about 150 metres east-west and 110 metres north-south. The modern road still bends to respect its western edge, preserving the ghost of a boundary that ploughs and fence removal have erased from the lowland tillage. What remains is a cropmark on aerial photographs, a faint shadow of a place people walked for centuries before it disappeared under the soil.
The ecclesiastical enclosure is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (OS 8/7584). There is a possible outer enclosure which the road bends to respect (L. E-W c. 150m, Wth N-S c. 110m). These remains were levelled between 1971-76. Today this is an area of lowland tillage which has experienced large scale field fence removal. No visible surface trace. Aerial photograph (GB89. AE.10) provides a view of the location of a curvilinear enclosure defined by two widely spaced fosses surrounding the early church site. The curve of the modern road respects the western edge of the outer enclosure. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 18 January 2015

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