NHER 1923 (Monument record) - Site of Great Barwick deserted medieval village

Context 1: Flint building reported about here. Field probably site of Great Barwick.(only one parishioner in 1511 (S1)) - in Domesday, Nomina Villarum.
See detailed discussion in (S2) for early history of village - 'Great' is a late addition to the name.
For church see NHER 1925.
E. Rose (NAU), 22 February 1985.

1983.
1:10 000 Ordnance Survey map shows village earthworks extending to each side.
E. Rose (NAU), 19 October 1990.

See Ordnance Survey description in file.
Ordnance Survey Records.
R.J.Rickett (NAU), 18 July 1990.

No discernible earthworks.
H. Paterson (A & E) 1991.

February-October 2014. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks associated with installation of wind turbines and associated infrastructure.
The widening of the south side of the road adjacent to this site partially exposed an east-north-east to west-south-west aligned ditch at TF 80685 35121. No dating evidence was recovered from this feature.
Unstratified finds from this location were limited to modern metal objects.
Information from draft report. Final version awaited.
P. Watkins (HES), 26 September 2024.

September 2025. Northwest Norfolk Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AI&M) Project.
No archaeological features relating to the site of the medieval village of Great Barwick were identified with any certainty on the consulted sources. A few fragmentary banks, visible as earthworks on aerial photographs (S3) could relate to the previously recorded earthworks, which are described above, depicted by modern Ordnance Survey mapping (S4), and described in the Historic England Research Record for the site (S5), but these are not particularly convincing and could reflect modern activity. The earthworks of several pits are visible on visualised lidar data (S6) in the field and particularly either side of the road to its north, and while it is possible that some of these also correlate with the earthworks previously recorded at the site, they are more likely to be extraction pits and consequently have not been mapped by the project. No evidence of any other earthworks surviving at the site was identified on the visualised lidar data (S6), suggesting that any archaeological earthworks have been levelled.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 15 September 2025.