A Norman Mill Dam and other sites at Hemington Fields, Castle Donington, Leicestershire

In 1985 a watching brief during gravel extraction at Hemington Fields, Castle Donington, Leicestershire, revealed a substantial timber and stone structure buried beneath 2–2.5 m of alluvium. Salvage excavation and a further watching brief have enabled the structure to be identified as a twelfth century mill dam associated with a possible low breast mill. This is the only mill site o f this date examined on a major river and has provided important information on medieval water management. Such sites indicate the great potential for archaeology within the flood plain of major rivers and contributes to a survey of palaeochannels in this area of the Trent valley

Archaeology · Geography · Mill · Engineering · Water management and technologies

• Years of River Management of the Dove Valley, along the Border of Derbyshire and Staffordshire

  Open Access•Kristina Krawiec, Andrew Howard et al.•Journal of Wetland Archaeology•2026

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• Medieval and early modern management of the River Lymn and Wainfleet Haven (east Lincolnshire, England)

  I G Simmons, Ian Simmons•Landscape History•2018

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• The palaeochannel record in the Trent Valley UK

  Open Access•ARCUS ARCUS, Steve Baker•Internet Archaeology•2007

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• The contribution of geoarchaeology to understanding the environmental history and archaeological resources of the Trent Valley, U.K

  Open Access•Andy J Howard•Geoarchaeology•2005

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• A large‐scale medieval dam‐lake cascade in central Europe

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• Inland water transport in Medieval England — the view from the mills

  Open Access•John Langdon•Journal of Historical Geography•2000

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• Archaeomagnetic Dating and Palaeochannels Sediments

  Open Access•C Ellis, Antony Brown et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•1998

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• Holocene sulphur-rich palaeochannel sediments

  Open Access•Antony Brown, A G Brown et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•2009

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• Harwell Radiocarbon Measurements X

  Open Access•A J Walker, A W Young et al.•Radiocarbon•1991

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• The Excavation of Batsford Mill, Warbleton, East Sussex, 1978

  Owen Bedwin•Medieval Archaeology•1980

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• Medieval Britain and Ireland in 1983

  Susan Youngs, Susan M Youngs et al.•Medieval Archaeology•1984

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• Medieval Britain and Ireland in 1988

  David Gaimster, David R M Gaimster et al.•Medieval Archaeology•1989

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• Iron Age and Roman Quern Production at Lodsworth, West Sussex

  Open Access•D P S Peacock•The Antiquaries Journal•1987

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• Place‐names of Derbyshire∗

  Eilert Ekwall•English Studies•1959

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• More about Querns

  Open Access•E Cecil Curwen•Antiquity•1941

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