Wimpole: CAFG Display Boards 'Silent Voices and Deserted Homes': A Heritage Lottery-funded project investigating the archaeology and lost landscapes on the Wimpole Estate.
The 'Silent Voices and Deserted Homes' project was funded by a Heritage Lottery Fund 'All Our Stories' grant allowing the Cambridge Archaeology Field Group (CAFG) to investigate the archaeology and lost landscapes on the Wimpole Estate. The project also received support from Cambridge Community Heritage at the University of Cambridge and from the National Trust. From January 2013 for over six years CAFG researched and recorded the story of the people on the estate at various historical periods. To document the now completed project the group recently published a 52-page booklet highlighting many aspects of the research [Wimpole: Silent Voices and Deserted Homes(v5 Final)(.pdf document)] and the ten accompanying Display Boards listed below.
The display boards illustrate the following topics:
[Wimpole Past's internal search facility covers the complete text of these external .pdf files.]
Please note that the links given below go direct to the Cambridge Archaeology Field Group website. The files are large .pdf images intended for poster-sized output and display as seen in the photograph above. The images may take a few seconds to download and display on your screen depending on your internet connection speed.
Board 1: Wimpole: Silent Voices and Deserted Homes. Click/tap here or on image for full display.
Board 2: The Landscape of Wimpole. Click/tap here or on image for full display.
Board 3: Evidence from Documents: 1. Click/tap here or on image for full display. [Board quotes names from the 1621 Wimpole parish baptism register: Georg Slipper, Moyses Slipper, Georg Houlder, Georg Jepson, Anne Rutter, Elizabeth Stasy, Thomas Stasy, Ann Day, Henry Prat, Jhon Prat, Henry Searle, William Archer, Martha Godfrey, William Netherwood, Thomas Netherwood, William Wix, William Gray, Marget Goode, William Rutter, Clement Rutter, Richd Griper, William Witton, and Elizabeth Eversden.]
Board 4: Evidence from Documents: 2. Click/tap here or on image for full display.
[Includes Grype/Griper family tree, includes family names by marriage: Newlen, Kettel, Neale, Stockes, Holder, Hitch.]
[Board also quotes family names: Francis, Avenel, Wratteworth, Brocke, Moore, Payne, Seamer, Maldin, Tryton, Jepson, Adams, Stokes, Chapman, Weyman, Griper, Pratt, Witton, Holder, Stacy, Godfrey, Slynnet, Daintry, Barron, Ball, Rutter, Finch, Neale.]
Board 5: Wratworth: a Lost Cambridgeshire Village. Click/tap here or on image for full display.
Board 6: Evidence from Fieldwalking. Click/tap here or on image for full display.
Board 7: Evidence from Test Pits. Click/tap here or on image for full display.
Board 8:
Evidence from Excavation. Click/tap here or on image for full display.
Board 9: People and Places Remembered. Click/tap here or on image for full display.
Board 10: That Was the Year That Was... Click/tap here or on image for full display.
The CAFG boards formed part of an an exhibition at Wimpole Hall, have been displayed at Cambridge Central Library and exhibited at a Cambridge Antiquarian Society conference.
