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oapen-20.500.12657-458282023-02-01T09:02:13Z West Cotton, Raunds Chapman, Andy Social Science Archaeology History Europe Medieval History Europe Great Britain bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history 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. 2020-12-24T04:02:15Z 2020-12-24T04:02:15Z 2010 book 9781842173893 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45828 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf Historic England Historic England 6030 d72b38ec-057d-48e4-904e-00ca0eecc129 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781842173893 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Historic England Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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