Jones, C. and Chapman, A. (2003). A medieval tenement at College Street, Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire. Northamptonshire Archaeology 31. Vol 31, pp. 125-135. https://doi.org/10.5284/1083329. Cite this via datacite
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A medieval tenement at College Street, Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire | ||||
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Northamptonshire Archaeology 31 | ||||
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Northamptonshire Archaeology | ||||
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125 - 135 | ||||
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Following extensive trial trenching, a small excavation was undertaken ahead of residential development on land west of College Street, Higham Ferrers. A number of shallow ditches and pits indicate that the area was occupied through the twelfth century, and tenement plots had probably been established at this time. By the later thirteenth century several stone buildings had been constructed. The presence of a circular oven base and stone-lined drains suggests that these were ancillary buildings perhaps pertaining to a domestic residence fronting onto Collage Street, although no evidence for this was located. To the west a ditched and later walled boundary, found in the trial trenching appears to divide the frontage from the back plots, which contained only quarry pits and scattered pits and ditches. The buildings appear to have fallen out of use by the end of the fifteenth century when the town is known to have been in decline. The historic map evidence indicates that the southern part of the area was still undeveloped at the end of sixteenth century, and remained an orchard until well into the nineteenth century, despite extensive development to the immediate north from the eighteenth century onward. | ||||
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03 Nov 2020 |
