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THE SETTLEMENT OF MIDDLE RASEN DRAX APPEARS NEVER TO HAVE DECLINED TO THE EXTENT NORMAL FOR A VILLAGE TO LOSE ITS CHURCH. MODERN DEVELOPMENTS SEEM TO HAVE OBLITERATED MOST OF THE REMAINS, EVEN THE STREET SYSTEM MAPPED IN 1772- 4. THE SETTLEMENT HAS TWO MAIN ELEMENTS. A) WHAT BY THE LATE C18 APPEARS A FORMLESS OR IRREGULAR GROUP OF STREETS AND PROPERTIES NEAR ST PAUL'S CHURCH. B) A VERY REGULAR TWO-ROW PATTERN ALONG THE EW THROUGH ROAD IN WHAT LOOKS LIKE A PLANNED SHIFT. A N-S ROAD (CHURCH STREET) CROSSING THE STREAM TO PROVIDE A LINK WITH MIDDLE RASEN TUPHOLME IS AN ADDITIONAL ELEMENT. {1}
An area at TF 0899 8899 has been the subject of a desk top assessment and site visit. It appears to lie within a medieval addition to the Middle Rasen Drax settlement. In the twelfth century this land block was probably carved out of part of an open field and laid out as regular plots with dwellings and rear yard areas, and associated features. There are indications that lanes to the open fields passed around and across the application area. Since these fell from use there has been varied ground disturbance for unknown reasons. {2}{3}
Trial trenching at TF 0899 8899 uncovered various features relating to the settlement. These included a north/south aligned ditch (thought to be a property boundary and possibly also a drainage ditch), post-holes, and a pit containing the complete articulated skeleton of a young horse. The pit containing the horse had 17th-18th century pottery in the very top of the topmost fill, with a 12th century sherd lower down in the same fill, suggesting a probable 12th century date for the horse burial, with the post-medieval pottery being intrusive. A feature may represent the remains of ridge and furrow agriculture, stratigraphically later than the boundary ditch, possibly indicating a shift in focus from domestic habitation in this part of the site. The trial trenching confirmed the existence of small plots across the site, focusing towards the A46.{4}{5}
A scheme of monitoring and recording was undertaken by Allen Archaeological Associates in January adn February 2010 during groundworks on land adjacent to Corrie Cottage, Middle Rasen. Four sherds of late 13th to early 15th century pottery, twenty sherds of 14th to 15th century pottery, a fragment of a possible medieval knife, animal bone and a sherd of 18th to 19th century pantile was revealed. {6}{7} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 1066 - 1199 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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