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| HHER Number: | 6428 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | ANGLO-SAXON, MEDIEVAL & POST-MEDIEVAL OCCUPATION, MARKET STREET, HERTFORD |
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Summary - not yet available
Monument Types
- OCCUPATION SITE (Historic: period uncertain - 410 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Events
- Excavation at the Covered Market, Hertford (Ref: P100)
Full description
Excavation on the site of the late 19C covered market produced evidence for a Late Saxon building, a shaft furnace, 28 pits and several ovens, dated to 900-1200 AD. The building comprised two beam-slots of the west side and a partition wall, fronting onto Market Street. It was short-lived, and was cut by several of the pits. The possible south wall of a building fronting onto Railway Street was also found. A gravel yard surface, dated to the later 13C, was laid across the centre of the site. It had a hearth at its southern edge. The area appears to have fallen out of use from the 14C until the early 17C when a rectangular lime kiln, and a chalk raft - probably the base of a building - were constructed. In the 18C two small brick cottages were built on the Railway Street frontage <1>.
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Report: Anon. 1996. The Hertford central project: excavations in Hertford, 1977-1993. Part 1, updated project design; appendix 1: assessment reports. archive assessment. RNO 432 p9-11 |
| <2> | Bibliographic reference: EHAS,1983. |
| <3> | Article in serial: Herts Mercury. 29.8.1980 |
| <4> | Article in serial: Hugh Borrill. 1981. Hertford: early settlement and recent excavations; Herts Past 10 (spring 1981), 15-20. |
| <5> | Article in serial: Turner-Rugg, Alison. 1993. Medieval pottery in Hertfordshire: a gazetteer of the principal collections; Herts Archaeology 11, 30-53. - p40 |
| <6> | Bibliographic reference: Hugh Borrill. 2008. The post-Roman pottery from excavations in Hertford and Ware, 1973-2004. |
Related records
| 9828 | Part of: SOUTHERN SAXON BURH, HERTFORD (Monument) |
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