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Name: | MEDIEVAL END SETTLEMENT & ROMAN OCCUPATION; North End |
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HER No.: | 2642 |
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Type of Record: | Monument |
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Summary
An area of medieval settlement earthworks at North End located to the west of the road, south of North End Farm. The remains comprise traces of rectangular platforms, hollows, ditches, ridge and furrow and an eroded hollow way. A possible hollow way may extend N-S, parallel with the present road, though this feature is possibly the result of post-medieval clay pits.
Full Description
A complex area of earthworks representing the remains of a deserted medieval settlement. The earthworks survive to the west of the modern road and include the line of the former road. Some individual plot boundaries and house platforms survive, but the earthworks have been damaged by later clay pits, by ploughing and by drainage works. To the east of the modern road, fieldwalking retrieved pottery dating to the 12th-14th centuries as well as Roman material. The medieval settlement is thought to have been a planned development.
Proabable medieval settlement earthworks at North End located (centred at TL 0254 5938) to the west of the road, south of North End Farm. The remains comprise traces of rectangular platforms, hollows, ditches, ridge and furrow and an eroded hollow way. The hollow way runs N-S, parallel with the present road and appears to have been eroded or quarried away.(1)
The area of medieval to post-medieval earthworks described above (Source 1) was visible on lidar imagery and mapped as part of the Bedford Borough NMP project. They are located at North End (centred at TL 02543 59418) and represent the remains of a deserted settlement. Boundary ditches and boundary banks defining enclosed are visible to the north and south of Gilberts Cottage. Later post-medieval clay pits are also visible and damaged some of the earlier earthworks. Field walking to the east of the road retrieved pottery dating to the 12th-14th centuries as well as Roman material. (2)
BCC Photographic Unit, Plan (Unpublished document). SBD10507.
Bedfordshire Archaeological Journal, Vol 7, 1972, p 7 (Bibliographic reference). SBD10569.
C C Taylor, C C Taylor, Survey and report (Unpublished document). SBD10961.
HER plans, Plans of earthworks & pottery scatters (Plan). SBD10881.
Landscape History, Vol 11, 1989, pp 77-79 (Article in serial). SBD10981.
Medieval Settlement Research Group Annual Report, Vol 2, 1987, p 7 (Bibliographic reference). SBD10799.
NMR Aerial Photograph, TL 0258/1/2120 (Aerial Photograph). SBD10595.
A Simco, 1984, Survey of Bedfordshire: Roman Period, p 99 (Bibliographic reference). SBD10650.
Environment Agency, 1998 - 2014, Light detection and ranging (lidar) airborne survey, (2) LIDAR TL0259 Environment Agency 1M DTM (Map). SBB12033.
2008, HEA 26111_018, (1) (Aerial Photograph). SBB12240.
Protected Status:
- SHINE: Settlement earthworks at North End
Monument Type(s):
Associated Finds: None recorded
Associated Events
- EBD273 - North End Farm, Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, Archaeological Field Evaluation (Ref: 96/11)
- EBB1336 - LAND SOUTH OF NORTH END FARM, BLETSOE; Evaluation (Ref: 2018/134)
Sources and Further Reading
--- | SBB12033 - Map: Environment Agency. 1998 - 2014. Light detection and ranging (lidar) airborne survey. (2) LIDAR TL0259 Environment Agency 1M DTM. |
--- | SBB12240 - Aerial Photograph: 2008. HEA 26111_018. (1). |
--- | SBD10507 - Unpublished document: BCC Photographic Unit. Plan. |
--- | SBD10569 - Bibliographic reference: Bedfordshire Archaeological Journal. Vol 7, 1972, p 7. |
--- | SBD10595 - Aerial Photograph: NMR Aerial Photograph. TL 0258/1/2120. |
--- | SBD10650 - Bibliographic reference: A Simco. 1984. Survey of Bedfordshire: Roman Period. p 99. |
--- | SBD10799 - Bibliographic reference: Medieval Settlement Research Group Annual Report. Vol 2, 1987, p 7. |
--- | SBD10881 - Plan: HER plans. Plans of earthworks & pottery scatters. |
--- | SBD10961 - Unpublished document: C C Taylor. C C Taylor. Survey and report. |
--- | SBD10981 - Article in serial: Landscape History. Vol 11, 1989, pp 77-79. |
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