Monument record MDO3904 - Medieval settlement, Chantry Fields, Gillingham

A formerly extensive area of earthworks on the west side of Chantry Fields, Gillingham, has been shown by a number of excavations to represent a medieval suburb or settlement associated with Gillingham. The earthworks have now largely been built over by housing, the Gillingham by-pass and Waitrose Supermarket car park.

The earthworks at Chantry Farm Gillingham were surveyed by the RCHME in October 1990, subsequent to the excavation by Wessex Archaeology of test pits along the line of a proposed road across the site.

The earthworks appear to represent the remains of several raised building platforms of medieval date lying to the NE of the surveyed area. These are defined and interconnected by a loosely gridded pattern of ditches and holloways, which may have served both to provide access to and drainage from the structures, reminiscent of the layout of many clayland villages in the midlands. (10)

<1> Heaton, M, 1990, Gillingham Relief Road, Gillingham, Dorset. Archaeological Assessment. (Unpublished document). SDO193.

<2> Heaton, M and Smith, R, 1991, Waitrose Site, Chantry Fields, Gillingham, Dorset. Archaeological Assessment. (Unpublished document). SDO219.

<3> Heaton, M and Smith, R, 1991, Chantry Farm, Gillingham, Dorset. Archaeological Assessment (Unpublished document). SDO220.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 1995, Chantry Fields, Gillingham; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society (Article in serial). SDO11462.

<4> Heaton, M, 1995, Two Mid-Saxon Grain-driers and Later Medieval Features at Chantry Fields, Gillingham, Dorset; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society (Article in serial). SDO11463.

<5> Lovell, J, 1996, Chantry Fields, Gillingham, Dorset. Archaeological Excavation. (Unpublished document). SDO11458.

<6> Valentin J, 1998, The Archaeological Evaluation of the Proposed Extension to the Existing Car Park at the Waitrose Supermarket, Gillingham, Dorset (Unpublished document). SDO11455.

<7> Valentin, J and Robinson, S, 2000, An archaeological excavation in advance of the car park extension at Waitrose Supermarket, Chantry Fields, Gillingham, Dorset (Unpublished document). SDO11449.

<8> Valentin J and Robinson S, 2001, A Medieval Site in Gillingham, Dorset: further excavations at Chantry Fields 1999; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society (Article in serial). SDO11451.

<9> Heaton, M, 2005, Chantry Farm, Gillingham, Dorset; Archaeological Evaluation June 2005 (Unpublished document). SDO11427.

<10> McOmish, D, Field Investigators comments DMcO, F1 D McOmish 29-JUN-1993 (Unpublished document). SDO17646.

<11> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 832679 Chantry Farm, Gillingham/ink survey (Index). SDO14738.

<12> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 915532 Chantry Farm, Gillingham/pencil survey (Index). SDO14738.

Part of second field surveyed

<13> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 918730 Chantry Farm, OS detail and extent of nettles/ink survey (Index). SDO14738.

<14> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 918868 Chantry Farm (Index). SDO14738.

<15> Historic England, Historic England Archive, AF0832677 RCHME: Chantry Farm, Gillingham, Dorset (Index). SDO14738.

RCHME Salisbury surveyed the medieval deserted village in 1990, subsequent to the discovery by Wessex Archaeology of evidence of occupation.Contents : 3 plans, field record form, report, notes, survey dataCondition : INTACT

<16> National Record of the Historic Environment, 963005 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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