A High Status Medieval Building Complex at Longforth Farm, Wellington, Somerset
Wessex Archaeology, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5284/1050893. How to cite using this DOI
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Introduction
Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Bloor Homes Ltd to undertake excavations at Longforth Farm, Wellington, Somerset (NGR 314031 121482), in advance of proposed large-scale housing development.
Approximately 1.6 ha of the site were investigated, with the excavations divided into four areas (A-D), carried out in 2012 and 2013, represent an element within a staged programme of work that began in 2010. This included a geophysical survey and a trail trench evaluation, the former not very informative and the latter revealing only a small number of prehistoric and medieval ditches and pits. The principal discovery was of a previously unknown high status medieval building complex which lay approximately 1KM north of the centre of Wellington is thought to have been a manor house, with the surviving foundations indicating that his covered an area measuring approximately 40m east-west by 30m north-south.
