NHER 5952 (Monument record) - Deserted medieval and post medieval village of Kilverstone

Earthwork remains of possible destroyed moated site.

1970.
Quay reported found.

1977. Fieldwalking.
Roman, Late Saxon, medieval sherds.

1980 to 1981.
Roman, medieval sherds and querns.

For full details see report in file.
NCM and PP.
E. Rose (NAU) 23 March 1981.

There were two manorial sites in the village, Coxford's and Monk's Hall. Both manors were in ecclesiastical hands until the Dissolution, and by the late 16th century both manors were held by Thomas Wright.
Detailed documentary research has shed light on the history of the village and its inhabitants.
See (S1) for more information.
S. Spooner (NLA) 24 April 2006

The central grid reference for this site has been altered from TL 895 839 to TL 8939 8398.

March 2010. Norfolk NMP.
The earthworks of the former medieval settlement within Kilverstone Park are visible on aerial photographs (S2-S6). The site is centred on TL 8939 8398. The site consists of two reasonably discrete areas of enclosures and tofts and crofts; an eastern and western area, which are separated by the post medieval hall itself and post medieval to modern landscaping. The records relate to two manorial sites at this location, which were divided by Tunny Lane to the west of the church, see secondary file. The earthworks of this lane were hard to decipher and are probably partly obscured by the boundary that runs along this route.
The eastern group consists of a series of rectangular building platforms or tofts set back from the river and slightly terraced into the slope. Linear boundaries forming crofts run up to the slope towards a trackway and/hollow way. The continuation of this road or track ‘The Bretham Way’ (S1) as cropmarks is visible to the east of the park (S6). The remains of a rectilinear embanked enclosure or platform, seemingly pre-dating the current enclosure around the church, can be seen to the immediate south of the church. This could represent part of a late Saxon phase to the site. This area to the south of the church is thought to have been the location of de Monks Hall (S6). The earthworks in this area were hard to decipher due to vegetation and the exact site of the manor building is not certain, although the well pronounced platform at TL 8943 8388 may relate to it.
The western area of earthworks also consists of probable tofts and crofts following a different alignment to those alongside the river and are probably arranged along Green Lane. The possible traces of ridge and furrow markings were tentatively identified further along this Lane to the south on aerial photographs taken in 1975 (S7), however these were not mapped as they could not confidently be identified on earlier photographs.
S. Horlock (NMP), 12 March 2010.