The Archaeology of Medieval EnglandBritish Museum Publications, 1984 - 224 pages |
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Page 18
... settlements lay in the areas of heavier clay - lands which were densely populated in the Middle Ages and where nucleated ... settlement - pattern and so where village desertion could not , in the nature of things , be a problem to be ...
... settlements lay in the areas of heavier clay - lands which were densely populated in the Middle Ages and where nucleated ... settlement - pattern and so where village desertion could not , in the nature of things , be a problem to be ...
Page 24
... settlement remains in the form of crop- or soil - marks , which often are not visible from ground level . A ruined church standing apparently isolated in the fields can also pin - point the presence of a settlement of which it once ...
... settlement remains in the form of crop- or soil - marks , which often are not visible from ground level . A ruined church standing apparently isolated in the fields can also pin - point the presence of a settlement of which it once ...
Page 174
... settlement by the king then that settlement was elevated to the status of a town.23 The term ' town ' , therefore was almost purely legal and administrative in definition . A wider interpretation has been adopted lately , however , and ...
... settlement by the king then that settlement was elevated to the status of a town.23 The term ' town ' , therefore was almost purely legal and administrative in definition . A wider interpretation has been adopted lately , however , and ...
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Abbey Anglo-Saxon appear Archaeol archaeological archaeological evidence areas aspects Benedictine Beresford Biddle buildings built carried castles centres changing church Cistercian clay cloth common concentrated construction continued crofts discovered distribution documentary documentation domestic early eleventh England English evidence example excavation farm fields firing floor foundations fourteenth Goltho ground historical houses illustrated important increased indicate individual industry instance interest iron kilns known land late later London materials Medieval Archaeology medieval towns medieval village mentioned methods Middle Ages moated sites monasteries monastic motte needed Norman occupied orders origins parish particularly past peasant period population possible pottery present preserved probably produced question reasons recent remains result seems seen settlement shown sources standing stone Street structures suggest Sulgrave surrounded thirteenth century throughout tiles timber tion tower towns trade twelfth urban usually walls Winchester