PROJECT AIMS
- Explore the lost village by means of historical and archaeological research.
- Carry out archaeological fieldwork, survey and excavation to investigate Sutterby’s development and decline.
- Obtain and interpret aerial photography and Lidar data to understand landscape development in and around the lost settlement.
- Use archival and published maps to chart the changes over time in the village layout, its field system, its buildings and its routeways.
- Undertake fieldwalking survey on all the ploughed land in the parish.
- Carry out geophysical and test-pitting surveys in areas not available for fieldwalking
PROJECT OUTCOMES
- Analysed and written-up fieldwalking surveys of all the arable land in parish
- Geophysical surveys of areas not available for fieldwalking
- Test pit surveys of selected areas of the parish
- Analysis of aerial photography and Lidar data for the parish
- Map regression analysis of the parish
GALLERY
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Digging test pits at Sutterby in July 2022
Volunteers carrying out fieldwalking survey
Distribution map for pottery collected during fieldwalking survey
Estate map of Sutterby dated 1763 with field names
Volunteers on a fieldwalking survey for the Sutterby project
Aerial photo of Sutterby Farm buildings in the 1960s
View south from Sutterby to the Langton Sheep Walks
Tray of washed finds from fieldwalking survey - mostly medieval pottery
Gold Stater coin from c10-50AD found during fieldwalking at Sutterby
DOCUMENTS
This section records documentation relating to the Settlement which has been produced or researched during the course of the project. Click on the document title to open a preview or download.