Sutton Common earthworks (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Sutton in Norton

In the civil parish of Norton.
In the historic county of Yorkshire.
Modern Authority of Doncaster.
1974 county of South Yorkshire.
Medieval County of Yorkshire West Riding.

OS Map Grid Reference: SE56391202
Latitude 53.60178° Longitude -1.14926°

Sutton Common earthworks has been described as a Uncertain but is rejected as such.

There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.

Description

Two large enclosures each defined by banks and ditches, and containing timber buildings. Now partially reduced to cropmarks through plough damage. Possible Iron Age enclosed settlement also Mesolithic flint working site. The multivallate ditches and banks forming the perimeter of these two enclosures and some associated ditch are visible as earthworks on air photographs. (PastScape)

At the east end of the Sutton Common two large earthwork enclosures, the more westerly roughly triangular, the larger easterly sub-rectangular, wider to N. end, S. end damaged by New Dike. Land drainage 1986 on damaged hitherto waterlogged remains of what 1988 excavators described as two island Iron Age settlements in a vanished lake. Magilton, who sardonically notes that the earlier excavation, "like most... Smedley or on Whiting" ones, "produced more problems than it solved" notes Mesolithic to Roman finds but suggests possible mediaeval usuage. (Sneyd 1995)

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Scheduled Monument Number 1004816, Legacy Scheduled Monument Number SY 291
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 56097.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 00133/01.

Websites (Gatehouse is not responsible for the content of external websites.)
- Wetland Archaeology and Environment Research Centre
  The Megalithic Portal
  Brigantes Nation
Books
- Robert Van de Noort, Henry P. Chapman and John R. Collis, 2007, Sutton Common: The Excavation of an Iron Age 'Marsh Fort' (CBA Research Report 154)
  Sneyd, Steve, 1995, The Devil's Logbook Castles and Fortified Sites around South Yorkshire (Hilltop Press) p. 16
  Magilton, J.R., 1977, The Doncaster District: An Archaeological Survey (Doncaster) p. 69
  Surtees, Scott, F., 1868, Footprints of Roman occupations in the Southern Parts of North Humber Land (Leeds) p. 1-21
Periodical Articles
- Sydes, R. E. & Symonds, J., 1988, Archaeology Today Vol. 9.2 p. 37-40
  Whiting C.E., 1936-38, 'Excavations on Sutton Common 1933, 1934 and 1935' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol. 33 p. 57-80
Other sources: Theses; 'grey' literature; in-house reports; unpublished works; etc.
- Historic England, 2016, Heritage at Risk Yorkshire Register 2016 (London: Historic England) p. 68 online copy
  Historic England, 2015, Heritage at Risk Yorkshire Register 2015 (London: Historic England) p. 78 online copy
  English Heritage, 2014, Heritage at Risk Register 2014 Yorkshire (London: English Heritage) p. 89 online copy
  English Heritage, 2013, Heritage at Risk Register 2013 Yorkshire (London: English Heritage) p. 93 online copy
  English Heritage, 2012, Heritage at Risk Register 2012 Yorkshire and the Humber (London: English Heritage) p. 113 online copy
  English Heritage, 2011, Heritage at Risk Register 2011 Yorkshire and the Humber (London: English Heritage) p. 105 online copy
  English Heritage, 2010, Heritage at Risk Register 2010 Yorkshire and the Humber (London: English Heritage) p. 109 online copy
  Robert Van de Noort, Henry Chapman, 2010, The Marsh of time: the saving of Sutton Common online copy
  English Heritage, 2009, Heritage at Risk Register 2009 Yorkshire and the Humber (London: English Heritage) p. 119 online copy
  Robert Van de Noort, 2004, Sutton Common Updated project design (University of Exeter) online copy
  Andrew Payne, 2003, Iron Age Enclosures on Sutton Common, Near Askern, South Yorkshire. Report on Geophysical Survey, June 2003 (English Heritage) online copy

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