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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)
Protected Status: None recorded
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Associated Finds: None recorded
Associated Events: None recorded
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