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FARMCOTE

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The site of a Medieval Grange settlement of Hailes Abbey (SP 03 SE 11). The site comprises a large rectilinear embanked enclosure within which are situated a fishpond, croft boundaries and platforms, hollow ways and a possible pillow mound. The site extends north / south for circa 500m along a west-facing scarp and is situated immediately west of and surrounding extant buildings, including the possibly Medieval barn and farm buildings. The site is visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs. Possibly later quarries, hollow ways and field boundaries are also included in this record.

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SP 061291. Farmcote DMV. (1)

The barn and farm buildings at Farmcote are possibly medieval in origin, part of a grange of Hailes Abbey, and the church, of which only the nave remains, is Norman. (2)

Area centred SP 06122904. Several croft-platforms, boundary banks, hollow-ways, and a single fish-pond, all representing village shrinkage, are visible in orchard and pastureland on the W facing hillslope, immediately surrounding the existing buildings. 200.0m W of N Farmcote, over an area of about 4 hectares (centred SP 05922907) the hillside presents a very disturbed appearance which is most probably the result of solifluxion.

Farmcote is depicted as having been a grange of Hailes Abbey. The existing farm buildings do not exhibit any outstanding or significant architectural features. (3-4)

SP 061 291. Farmcote is listed in a review of the deserted medieval villages of Gloucestershire. (5)

The site of a Medieval Grange settlement of Hailes Abbey (SP 03 SE 11 / UID: 328158) referred to above (1-5) is partially visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs. The site is centred at SP 0608 2905 and extends north / south for circa 500m along a west-facing scarp and is situated immediately west of and surrounding the extant buildings, including the possibly Medieval barn and farm buildings, mentioned by source 2. The site comprises a large rectilinear embanked incomplete enclosure within which are situated a fishpond, croft boundaries, hollow ways and a possible pillow mound.

The rectilinear enclosure is suggested by an interrupted linear bank that measures just under 3m wide and defines the western edge of a probable large rectilinear grange enclosure. It extends between SP 0602 2891 and SP 058 2906, although a right-angled corner turns the bank eastwards at SP 0601 2895. The bank at this point was extant on aerial photographs taken in 1972 but by 2003 has been ploughed down and is only visible as a cropmark. The bank extends for 95m eastwards from this corner, to where two parallel banks each situated a further 20m north, may combine with the bank to define croft boundaries.

The fishpond is centred at SP 0599 2908 and is flanked to the south and west by an earthwork bank measuring up to 12m wide. It measures 30m long by 6m and apears to have been fed by leats to the north, where a shallow possible channel measuring up to 15m wide at its western end extends to the north-east, between SP 0598 2910 and SP 0608 2914. This may also define part of the the northern side of the rectilinear enclosure.

The possible pillow mound is situated perpendicular to, and possibly overlapping, the enclosure bank and extends in two sections between SP 0599 2900 and SP 0602 2901. The two sections are just under 2m apart and measure up to 6m wide. They are flanked to both the north and south by narrow linear ditches.

Further possible croft boundaries are situated to the south, around SP 0608 2885 and SP 0609 2876, although these could be Post Medieval plot boundaries and the latter are made up of irregular banks situated within a yard, and so could relate to later agricultural transport movements.

Possibly later hollow ways, field boundaries and quarries are also included in this record. The hollow ways extend across the scarp, between SP 0610 2869 and SP 0618 2889 and between SP 0617 2900 and SP 0618 2904, and represent alternative routes up the valley side and / or short-cuts between trackways. A curving linear bank between SP 0615 2868 and SP 0620 2898 defines the south-eastern side of the site and is aligned on a field boundary to the north, suggesting the bank is a contemporary Post Medieval field boundary, although it may have earlier origins. A number of Medieval or later small-scale quarries are dispersed along the scarp, at SP 0613 2868, SP 0612 2873, SP 0616 2872, SP 0619 2884, SP 0619 2912, SP 0618 2914, and SP 0620 2918, and the northernmost of these is marked on the 1884 map.

The earthworks relate to the Medieval Grange complex and successive farming settlement at Farmcote. (6-10)

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( 1) General reference

DMV Res Gp AR10 1962 Appx A

( 2) General reference

Buildings of England, Glos 1 1970 250-1 (D Verey)

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 JWS 22-AUG-73

(4) General reference

Hailes Abbey Museum Distribution wall-map

(5) General reference

Glevensis 15 1981 28 (M Aston & L Viner)

(6) Vertical aerial photograph reference number

NMR OS/72152 309-10 01-JUN-1972

(7) Oblique aerial photograph reference number

NMR SP 0629/16 (23276/09) 07-NOV-2003

(8) Oblique aerial photograph reference number

NMR SP 0629/11 (23325/04) 07-NOV-2003

(9) Oblique aerial photograph reference number

NMR SP 0629/11 (23325/04) 07-NOV-2003

(10) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

1884 Gloucestershire 1:2,500

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