Shrunken Medieval Settlement at Ansty
Description of this historic site
The Medieval shrunken settlement of Ansty. Evidence for ridge and furrow cultivation, a hollow way and house platforms survive as earthworks. The site is located 200m south of Ansty Hall.
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Notes about this historic site
2 Earthworks of probable hollow ways and croft boundaries show on aerial photographs. Ridge and furrow is evident beyond these earthworks. This probably represents an area of abandoned Medieval settlement.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
The extensive and well defined ridge and furrows in the field behind Ansty church show a later(?) track apparently superimposed upon them being banked up in the furrows, so it is level with the ridges running from Ansty Hall. It turns right and aligns with a ramp presumably leading to a no longer extant bridge over the disused arm of the canal, which is easily defined. It then crosses a stream which forms one side of a large square platform surrounded by a ridge and ditch, the continuous profile of which suggest to me a modern origin – they seem to resemble rather the Pleasaunce at Kenilworth and i wonder if perhaps they might have been a pleasure garden for Ansty Hall.
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