Cock Bevington Deserted Settlement
Description of this historic site
The possible site of a deserted settlement dating to the Medieval period. The remains of the settlement are visible as an earthwork. It is also known from documentary evidence and is located 600m north west of Iron Cross.
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Notes about this historic site
1 The 1607 Depopulation Returns list Cock Bevington.
2 The field S of Bevington Hall contains irregular earthworks, which may be the remains of house platforms. At one point in the field the ground has subsided to reveal stone foundations beneath the soil, indicating that buildings had stood there at some time.
3 Some earthworks and stonework visible when site visited in 1980.
4Monument extent changed to actually include field mentioned in note 2 which lidar imagery shows to contain well-preserved settlemetn earthworks.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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