Abstract
The article presents the results of a geodetic and topographic survey of the deserted medieval village Horní Lhotka near Malotice (Central Bohemia, Kolín District) including the analysis of its settlement and historic contexts. The built-up area and the village environment became overgrown with forest that helped to preserve the terrain remains of houses and ploughed areas.
The discovered relics enable one to reconstruct the form of the settlement, the arrangement of the farmsteads, and in some cases even their interior layouts. The ploughed areas were successfully identified and typologically classified based on the light detection and ranging (LiDAR) of the Earth's surface.
The village had a regular geometrical form with a village green in the centre, while the ploughed areas were arranged octagonally. It emerged later as an addition to the settlement network on a narrow border of two regions with different nature types - Cernokostelecko and Kourimsko.
The village first appeared in written sources in the 14th century and it was deserted no later than the first half of the 16th century.