Atkinson, M. and Miciak, L. (2011). St Margaret's Church, Wicken Bonhunt, Essex, Archaeological Monitoring and Recording. Essex County Council Field Archaeology Unit. https://doi.org/10.5284/1020526. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 St Margaret's Church, Wicken Bonhunt, Essex, Archaeological Monitoring and Recording
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Series:		 Essex County Council Field Archaeology Unit unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 Essex County Council Field Archaeology Unit monitored the contractors' excavation of the footprint of a kitchen/toilet extension to the north-west corner of St Margaret's Church, Wicken Bonhunt, and an associated drainage trench running across its churchyard. The chancel was built in the 13th century and is all that survives of the medieval church, the nave and tower being rebuilt in the mid 19th century. Eleven inhumations were found within in the kitchen/toilet extension footprint and two more in the drainage trench. All interments were aligned north-east/south-west, parallel to the church and buried at a relatively shallow depth, ranging from 0.25 to 0.8m below the present ground surface. Generally, there were no associated artefacts but the location and position of the skeletons suggests they were of medieval and/or post-medieval date. The only stratified find was a post-medieval/modern nail recovered from the vicinity of one of the graves. Unstratified artefacts collected from the drainage trench included a quantity of small sherds of Late Saxon St Neots-type pottery, also found at the remains of a Late Saxon manorial and chapel complex excavated at Bonhunt Farm, c.1.25km to the east. It is speculated that a contemporary manorial focus for Wicken, perhaps with its own chapel, was located in the vicinity of what became the site of the medieval church and centre of the village. A few pieces of medieval pottery, fired clay likely dated to the same period, fragments of medieval/post-medieval peg tiles and three nails of similar age were also collected. No other archaeological remains were discovered that help determine the nature and date of land-use predating the medieval church nor of its foundation and development.
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Author:		 M Atkinson
L Miciak
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Publisher:		 Essex County Council Field Archaeology Unit
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Essex County Council Historic Environment Records (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2011
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Site: St Margaret's Church
Parish: WICKEN BONHUNT
District: Uttlesford
County: Essex
Country: England
Location - Auto Detected: Bonhunt Farm
Location - Auto Detected: St Margarets Church Wicken Bonhunt
Location - Auto Detected: St Neotstype
Grid Reference: 549880, 233350 (Easting, Northing)
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POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) NAIL (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) Extended Inhumations (Monus)
Late Saxon (Auto Detected Temporal)
13th Century (Auto Detected Temporal)
Mid 19th Century (Auto Detected Temporal)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
WATCHING BRIEF (Event)
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OASIS Id: essexcou1-108043
OBIB: 2451
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Note:		 A4 book, blue spine, 21 pages
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Created Date:		 25 Nov 2016