Church Wilne Deserted Medieval Settlement, Derbyshire

The project aimed at securing and enhancing the excavation archive relating to a deserted medieval village at Church Wilne, Derbyshire (SK 449318). The work was funded by English Heritage through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund and was managed on behalf of Trent & Peak Archaeology by David Knight. Work on the site archive was conducted by Eileen Appleton and Panagiota Markoulaki (Trent & Peak Archaeology) between April and July 2009. The small medieval village of Church Wilne was located on marginal land in the broad alluvial floodplain of the River Derwent, close to its confluence with the River Trent and several kilometres upstream of the confluence of the Trent with the Rivers Soar and Erewash. All that survives today is the parish church of St Chad's. This is an isolated building, located some 200m north of the modern river. The church may originally have been enclosed on three sides by a meander of the Derwent, the medieval course of which may be reconstructed from topographic, documentary, cartographic and excavation evidence. The last dwellings in the village were demolished in the 1960s, while the area adjacent to the church was converted after quarrying to a large reservoir (St Chad's Water) within a water sports centre.

本项目旨在整理并完善英国德比郡（SK 449318）丘奇威尔恩一处废弃中世纪村落的考古发掘档案。本项目由英格兰遗产（English Heritage）通过集料税可持续基金资助，并由戴维·奈特（David Knight）代表特伦特与峰区考古事务所（Trent & Peak Archaeology）进行管理。2009年4月至7月期间，艾琳·阿普尔顿（Eileen Appleton）与帕纳约塔·马库拉基（Panagiota Markoulaki，均任职于特伦特与峰区考古事务所）完成了该遗址档案的整理工作。丘奇威尔恩这座中世纪小型村落坐落于德文特河（River Derwent）宽阔冲积洪泛平原的边际地带，紧邻其与特伦特河（River Trent）的汇流处，且位于特伦特河与苏尔河（River Soar）、埃里沃什河（River Erewash）汇流点上游数公里处。如今仅存的遗址遗迹为圣查德（St Chad's）教区教堂。该建筑地处偏僻，位于现代河道以北约200米处。这座教堂最初可能被德文特河的一处河曲三面环绕，中世纪时期的河道可通过地形学、文献、制图学及考古发掘证据进行复原。该村最后一批民居于20世纪60年代被拆除，而教堂周边区域在采石作业后被改造为水上运动中心内的大型水库——圣查德水（St Chad's Water）。