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Description: | UNENCLOSED SETTLEMENT REMAINS OF MIDDLE SAXON DATE COMPRISING HOUSES OF TIMBER AND CLAY SET IN LARGE PROPERTY PLOTS, PARTLY EXCAVATED BY GUY BERESFORD IN 1971-4, AND UNDERLYING THE LATE SAXON TO MEDIEVAL MANORIAL COMPLEX. CONTEMPORARY POTTERY FROM FIELDWALKING SUGGESTED THAT THE VILLAGE HAD EXTENDED SOUTH DOWN THE SLOPE FROM THE HIGH POINT OCCUPIED BY THE LATER CHURCH AND MANOR, TOWARDS THE STREAM. {2}
The excavated area of the settlement consists of a north-south aligned trackway and two successive houses as well as a boundary, presumably between two homesteads. The earlier of the two houses (dated by pottery) was the smaller. Both houses were of long east-west aligned rectangular form with a single internal division, and were probably of timber and clay construction. The second house had an enclosed yard adjoining it to the north. This yard contained a light scatter of slag, indicative of smithing activity on the site, as well as a substantial stone hearth. Pottery recovered includes shell-tempered, grey sandy, Torskey, Maxey-type and stamford wares. Animal bone was also recovered, and together with the pottery this indicates a domestic assemblage. No metal finds were recovered. It seems likely that the settlement continued to the south, possibly with a similar layout to the later medieval settlement. {3}
The dating of the pottery from this excavation needs some revision in the light of recent research. {5} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 650 - 849 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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