Monument record 96 - Lodge Farm

Norton Shrunken Village. Excavations covering 1,900 sq.m were carried out in advance of redevelopment. The site comprised a number of post-holes, some forming groups showing successive rebuilding of structures on two house platforms. Associated were pits, cess-pits, cobbled tracks and the site was divided by drainage ditches. Finds span the C13/C14 to C17. Norton appears as a Domesday Manor and was granted to the Augusinian canons on moving from Runcorn to Norton in 1134. Maps of 1757 and 1844 show the shrinkage of the village to a single farm (1) and (2).

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, 1980 SJ58SE6 (Index). SCH2487.

<2> Chester Archaeological Society, Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society, Greene J P & Hough P 1977 60/61-93 (Journal/Periodical). SCH1595.

<3> The Society for Medieval Archaeology, 1957-Present, Medieval Archaeology, Greene J P 1976 20/177 (Journal/Periodical). SCH2131.

<4> Post Medieval Archaeology, Greene J P 1977 11/94 (Journal/Periodical). SCH2670.