Shaw, M. and Steadman, S. (1994). Life on a medieval backstreet: archaeological excavations at Swan Street, Northampton, 1989. Northamptonshire Archaeology 25. Vol 25, pp. 127-158. https://doi.org/10.5284/1083223. Cite this via datacite
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Life on a medieval backstreet: archaeological excavations at Swan Street, Northampton, 1989 | |||
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Northamptonshire Archaeology 25 | |||
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Northamptonshire Archaeology | |||
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127 - 158 | |||
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Excavations demonstrated the changing use of an area of land behind a minor street within the medieval walled town of Northampton. Such marginal sites are valuable in that they often prove to be more sensitive to the ebb and flow of a town's economic fortunes than the more intensively occupied major street frontages. Settlement appears to have spread into the area soon after the Norman Conquest and there may have been timber structures on the site from the mid-twelfth century. A hiatus in occupation occurred in the fourteenth century when the area appears to have been given over to cultivation, probably gardening. A horse burial from this period is of interest in bearing a large number of knife marks which suggest that flesh had been removed from the skeleton. This may have been for human consumption, although the feeding of dogs is equally likely. Further evidence of structures may attest to the return of settlement in the fifteenth century but by the sixteenth century the area was given over to cultivation once more. Possible bedding trenches again suggest gardening. The map evidence demonstrates that the area was used as orchards from the mid-eighteenth century until the early-nineteenth century when terraced buildings were constructed. | |||
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1994 | |||
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