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Record Nr.

UNINA9910477305103321

Autore

Chapman Andy

Titolo

West Cotton, Raunds : : A Study of Medieval Settlement Dynamics AD 450-1450. Excavation of a deserted medieval hamlet in Northamptonshire, 1985-89 / / Andy Chapman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[s.l.] : , : Historic England, , 2010

ISBN

1-84217-758-3

1-84217-389-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AlbarellaUmberto

ArchibaldMarion

Disciplina

942.5/54

Soggetti

History / Europe / Medieval

Social Science / Archaeology

History / Europe / Great Britain

Social sciences

West Cotton Site (Raunds, England)

Raunds (England) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The open area excavation of nearly a half of the small deserted medieval hamlet of West Cotton, Raunds, Northamptonshire has revealed the dynamic processes of constant development in a way that has rarely been achieved on other comparable sites in England. Its origins have been seen to lie in the mid tenth-century plantation of a planned settlement based on regular one-acre plots, which occurred within the political context of the reconquest of eastern England by the Saxon kings and the subsequent reorganisation of settlement and society within the Danelaw. The settlement contained a major holding comprising a timber hall with ancillary buildings and an adjacent watermill, with perhaps a second similar holding and dependent peasants nearby. It was established on the edge of the floodplain at the confluence of a tributary stream with the River Nene, on a major valley-



bottom route way.