Monument record CLA 010 - Lower Common, Clare Camp; Erbury (Med)
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Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred TL 768 458 (494m by 461m) |
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Map sheet | TL74NE |
Civil Parish | CLARE, ST EDMUNDSBURY, SUFFOLK |
Map
Type and Period (1)
Full Description
Clare Camp formerly Erbury.
Appears to have been used as a manorial compound for the Manor of Clare. Mention of repairs to barns, dovehouse, granary and the servants houses 'apud Erdebir', 1309-1310 (R1).
Circa 1509-1534 Queen Katherine granted the common lands called Houndwall and Erbury Garden, part of the demesne of the manor, to be used as common pasture for poor people. Common was subsequently divided into cattle walks (R2). Finds of Med pottery and metalwork - see Parish file.
One and three quarter acres of Lower Common allotted to the Vicar was divided off in C19. Lies on S side (R3).
Camp Close - map shows a Smallpox house in N part of enclosure (R4). A roughly polygonal enclosure of 7 or 8 acres, with a double bank and ditch, the outer bank being lower. Appears to be later than the present arrangement of streets and lanes, is not Prehistoric, nor Roman and generally suggests a large Med manor house, possibly an additional dwelling place of the Clares and their successors at the Castle. The nearest parallels in shape and position are Fechenham and Gillingham. Two entrances (E end of N and S end of E) at least, are original (S1).
1991: Overgrown. St Edmundsbury DC say all of Lower Common should be registered as of archaeological importance in view of double ditched approach to earthwork, perhaps cursus (S3).
See also Un for details of earthwork.
Sources/Archives (12)
- <R1> SSF22128 (No record type): Thornton G A, History of Clare, 1928, 18.
- <M1> SSF50072 Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish file.
- <S1> SSF5242 Unpublished document: Department of the Environment. Scheduling information.
- <R2> SSF3511 (No record type): Clare Parochial Docs (W Suff Rec Office FL501).
- <M2> SSF45545 (No record type): SAM file:.
- <S2> SSF50031 Photograph: CUCAP. CUCAP aerial photograph. CUCAP, APs PQ 31, 1955; BEQ 30 (19710119).
- <R3> SSF10752 (No record type): Map, W Suff Rec Office, FL501/11/504.
- <S3> SSF21759 (No record type): Suff Pres Soc (Paul Edwards) survey, table of results, 1991.
- <M3> SSF50031 Photograph: CUCAP. CUCAP aerial photograph. APs: CUCAP PQ 31 & BEQ 30.
- <R4> SSF3512 Map: 1848. Clare Tithe Map.
- <S4> SSF50106 Photograph: Air Photographs. NAU, TL 768 457/JEJ 4-7, 24/7/1992.
- <R5> SSF50048 Bibliographic reference: Victoria County History of Suffolk (Vol I 1911; Vol II 1907). VCH Suffolk, 2, 1907, plan, 888-890.
Finds (1)
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Record last edited
May 8 2019 6:05PM