Sutton Common earthworks
Has been described as a Rejected Uncertain
There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains
| Name | Sutton Common earthworks |
| Alternative Names | Sutton in Norton |
| Historic Country | Yorkshire |
| Modern Authority | Doncaster |
| 1974 Authority | South Yorkshire |
| Civil Parish | Norton |
Two large enclosures each defined by banks and ditches, and containing timber buildings. Now partially reduced to cropmarks through plough damage. Possible Iron Age enclosed settlement also Mesolithic flint working site. The multivallate ditches and banks forming the perimeter of these two enclosures and some associated ditch are visible as earthworks on air photographs. (PastScape)
At the east end of the Sutton Common two large earthwork enclosures, the more westerly roughly triangular, the larger easterly sub-rectangular, wider to N. end, S. end damaged by New Dike. Land drainage 1986 on damaged hitherto waterlogged remains of what 1988 excavators described as two island Iron Age settlements in a vanished lake. Magilton, who sardonically notes that the earlier excavation, "like most... Smedley or on Whiting" ones, "produced more problems than it solved" notes Mesolithic to Roman finds but suggests possible mediaeval usuage. (Sneyd 1995)
This site is a scheduled monument protected by law
Not Listed
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
| OS Map Grid Reference | SE563120 |
| Latitude | 53.6017799377441 |
| Longitude | -1.1492600440979 |
| Eastings | 456391 |
| Northings | 412021 |
