Deserted Village, Heath

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• HER Number (PRN): 00185
• Site Name : Deserted Village, Heath
• Protected Status:

  Grade:
  Ref No.:	1006277
  Title:	Title not entered
  Type:	Scheduled Monument

• Monument Type:
  • Field System (Medieval)
  • Deserted Settlement (Medieval)
• Civil Parish:
  • Heath , South Shropshire, Shropshire
• Grid Reference: SO 5573 8556
• Related Interventions:
  • 2019 Magnetometry survey at The Heath, South Shropshire by Peter Cornah/William Wintle, ESA9004
  • 2007 WB on installation of gateposts at Heath Chapel, Heath by SCCAS, ESA6520
  • 1992-2000 Summary Condition Survey of SAMs in the Shropshire Hills Environmentally Sensitive Area by English Heritage, esa4785
  • 1985 survey at Heath DMV by the NMR, ESA4501
  • 1983 survey, ESA4500
  • 1979 field observation by the Ordnance Survey, ESA4499
  • 1982 field observation by English Heritage, ESA4498
  • 1982 field observation by English Heritage, ESA4497
  • 1969 field observation by English Heritage, ESA4496
• Brief Description: Scheduled Monument: The earthworks of a deserted medieval village and part of its field system.
• Description: Fields around the Heath Chapel (Norman) (PRN 00975) contain DMV earthworks. Stone lined well in field north of chapel. Seven taxable families in 1327, only four tenements by 1770. Map of 1771 shows detail of earlier village plan and fields. Plan of Heath in 1770 shows that the road pattern, fishponds and earthworks to the north of the chapel, called Moat Meadow (SA 2983) were still in existence. The "Wynet" open field can be identified on the ground today in the form of ridge and furrow. Heath Park, originally a deer park, appears as a compact enclosed holding. <5>
  
  The surviving earthworks cover an area of approximately 4 hectares, now under grass, immediately NW of Heath Chapel, and including the present burial ground. There are at least five possible building platforms, and the holloways have a maximum depth of c 0.9m. At SO55748565 there is a circular stone lined well, measuring 1m in diameter, and 4.8m deep to the present water level. A holloway 10m wide, and up to 1.4m deep, runs NW from the NE corner of the settlement along the edge of the field. There are slight traces of earthworks between the settlement and the holloway, which appear to have been ploughed down in modern times. The holloway turns to the SW and joins the modern road. At SO55498567 are the remains of a flat-topped pond bay measuring 40m in length, 14m in width and up to 1.6m in height. Heath Park is defined only by modern field boundaries. OS FI 1979 <1>
  
  Evaluated for MPP in 1990-1: High score as one of 58 DMVs; High score as one of 91 Irregular Open Field Systems; one of less than 10 Deer Parks <19>
  
  Two post-holes and a shallow trench were cut for a new gate alongside the existing field gate. The post holes were excavated to 400mm diameter by up to 700mm deep, connected by a sill trench 200mm wide by 300mm deep. The post holes and sill trench were cut through a topsoil of a dark reddish brown clay loam c. 450mm thick which came down onto a subsoil of dark reddish brown clay silt. No significant archaeological features were seen in the excavations. <21>
  
  Photographed during aerial survey in 2008. <22><23><24>
  
  Visited during a condition survey by the English Heritage Field Monument Warden, in 1994. Condition recorded as fair, but the past management agreement has only been partially successful. <25>
  
  Photographed during aerial survey in 2019. <26>
  
  Extent of GIS polygon significantly extended to the S to reflect the extent of settlement earthworks which were identified by <8>, and which are partially evident on LiDAR imagery and aerial photography. The extent southwards should be viewed as indicative only, as it is unclear the extent to which these earthworks were surveyed or sketched. <27><27a><27b>
  
  Geophysical survey (magnetometry) was carried out in two fields to the N and E of Heath Chapel in June 2019. The results were limited, but a number of anomalies were recorded across earthwork features, taken to be a product of a 'topographic effect' on the magnetomaters as they were carried across these features. <28>
• Record Type: Monument
• Sources:

  (00)	Card index: Shropshire County Council SMR. Site and Monuments Record (SMR) cards. SMR record cards. SMR Card for PRN SA 00185.
  (01)	Card index: Ordnance Survey. 1979. Ordnance Survey Record Card SO58NE11 . Ordnance Survey record cards. SO58NE11 .
  (01a)	Monograph: Beresford M W & Hurst J G. 1971. Deserted Medieval Villages. p307, p328.
  (02.1)	Oblique aerial photograph: Cambridge University Collection of Air Photos (CUCAP). 1966-Jan-30. CUCAP AMY35 to AMY40 (6 Photos). Black and white.
  (02.2)	Oblique aerial photograph: Anon. Oblique View.
  (03)	Oblique aerial photograph: Musson Chris R. 1988-Mar-04. CPAT 88/04/0003.
  (04)	Field Monument Warden Report: Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission (HBMC). 1983. Scheduled Monument Report on SAM 13152.
  (04a)	Article in serial: Gaydon A T & Rowley R T. 1964. Article in the Annual Reports of the Medieval Villages Research Group. Ann Rep Medieval Village Res Gp. No 12. Appendix E.
  (04b)	TEXT: Gaydon A T & Rowley R T. 1965. Shropshire DMVs. 9b.
  (05)	Monograph: Rowley R T. 1972. The Shropshire Landscape. The Making of the English Landscape. p113-115 with 1771 map.
  (06)	Gazetteer: Page P S. 1977. Deserted Villages in Shropshire. Site list. p35.
  (07)	Volume: Anon. 1983. Annual Report of the Medieval Villages Research Group 1983. Medieval Villages Research Group Annual Reports. 1983. p9-10, with plan.
  (08)	Measured survey drawing: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME). 1985. Plan. 1:2500.
  (09)	Plan: Bond C J. 1981. Plan.
  (10)	Oblique aerial photograph: Musson Chris R. 1988-Mar-04. CPAT 88/MB/0038 to 0042 (5 photos). Black and White. Medium.
  (11)	Photograph: Anon. Slide. Colour.
  (12)	Oblique aerial photograph: Musson Chris R. 1992-May-15. CPAT 92/MB/0647 to 0650 (4 photos). Black and White. Medium.
  (13)	Oblique aerial photograph: Musson Chris R. 1992-May-15. CPAT 92/C/0964. Colour. 35mm.
  (14)	Scheduled Monument notification: Ministry of Public Buildings and Works. 1970. Map of Scheduled area, 1970.
  (15)	Correspondence: Department of the Environment (DoE). 1971/ 1972. Correspondence, 1971-1972.
  (16)	Correspondence: Various. 1990. Correspondence, 1990.
  (17)	Photograph: Anon. 1979-Apr. Heath Chapel. Black and white. 35mm.
  (18)	Oblique aerial photograph: Barret Gill. 1993. Barret Gill, Oblique View, 1993: 93/R/23-24 (Colour slide). Colour.
  (19)	TEXT: Horton Wendy B. 1990/ 1991. MPP Evaluation File.
  (20)	Monograph: Baugh G C (ed). 1998. Victoria County History X: Wenlock, Upper Corvedale and the Stretton Hills. Vol 10. p393 - 397.
  (21)	Watching brief report: Hannaford Hugh R. 2007. Heath Deserted Medieval Village. SCCAS Rep.
  (22)	Oblique aerial photograph: Shropshire Council. 2008-Jan-30. SA0802_123 to SA0802_132 (10 photos) Flight: 08_SA_02. Colour. Digital.
  (23)	Oblique aerial photograph: Shropshire Council. 2008-Jun-8. SA0804_014 to SA0804_017 (4 photos) Flight: 08_SA_04. Colour. Digital.
  (24)	Oblique aerial photograph: Shropshire Council. 2010-Mar-8. SA1005_264 to SA1005_269 (6 photos) Flight: 10_SA_05. Colour. Digital.
  (25)	Field survey report: Leigh Judith. 2001. Scheduled Ancient Monuments in the Shropshire Hills ESA: Brief Condition Survey.
  (26)	Oblique aerial photograph: Shropshire Council. 2019-Jul-25. SA1902_100 to SA1902_104 (5 photos) Flight: 19_SA_02. Colour. Digital.
  (27)	SMR comment: Carey Giles. 2014 onwards. Comments by Giles Carey, HER compiler in HER database. 30/08/2019.
  (27a)	Geospatial data: Environment Agency. 2014. LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) Hillshade Model.
  (27b)	Vertical aerial photograph: Getmapping plc. 2012. Get Mapping Digital Aerial Photographic 25cm Resolution Data Set for Shropshire (Current). Colour. ECW. 1:2500.
  (28)	Geophysical survey report: Cornah P. 2019. Geophysical survey at The Heath, South Shropshire.

• Tags:
  • Field System
  • Deserted Settlement
• Related Places:
  • Heath, South Shropshire, Shropshire (Civil Parish)
• For more information contact: Shropshire Council HER
• Date Created: 04/01/1995
• Date Last Edited: 30/08/2019 10:49:21