Brown, J. (2012). Prehistoric land use and Saxon to medieval enclosures at Bendyshe Farm, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, Excavation and watching brief, 2010-11. Northamptonshire Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1021619. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Prehistoric land use and Saxon to medieval enclosures at Bendyshe Farm, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, Excavation and watching brief, 2010-11
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Abstract:		 Excavations were conducted by Northamptonshire Archaeology at Bendyshe Farm, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire over the period 2010-11 as part of development. Evidence of scattered pits along the base of the slope, in the lower lying boggy ground, indicated periodic exploitation in the catchment of a natural water source during the late Neolithic/early Bronze Age and the middle Iron Age. Seed assemblages from a single late Iron Age pit, dating to the 1st centuries BC/AD, indicate cereal cultivation nearby. A single pit contained a few sherds of Roman pottery. Further agricultural activity did not occur until the middle to late Saxon period. The rear boundaries of plots divided enclosed land from the fields. In the late Saxon period a small stock enclosure was added to the rear of the plots. Following the Norman Conquest the land was completely reorganised and linear ditches defined rectangular plots in close proximity to where grain was processed and stored. The boundary ditches were filled in the 12th century. Thereafter the land remained open, it was acquired in 1329 by Thomas Bendish who built the moated site, but the immediate area of the modern development was not a focus of activity in the 14th-15th centuries. From the mid-16th century the east portion of land served as yard space to the nearby red brick Bendish House, within the moated area. A number of latrine pits were excavated, and deposits of soil indicated that other waste material was brought here and levelled out. The land continued to be used in this way until the replacement of Bendish House with a grey brick building at the beginning of the 19th century. The 19th-century Bendyshe Manor was the forerunner of the modern farm and the gradual addition of ancillary farm buildings around a rectangular yard space is depicted by the cartographic record to the present.
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Author:		 J Brown
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Publisher:		 Northamptonshire Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2012
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Site: Bendyshe Farm
Parish: BOTTISHAM
District: East Cambridgeshire
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Location - Auto Detected: Bendyshe Farm Bottisham Cambridgeshire
Location - Auto Detected: Bendish House
Grid Reference: 554320, 260400 (Easting, Northing)
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MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) ANIMAL REMAINS (Object England)
EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) FINGER RING (Object England)
LATER PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods) Flint (Find)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) Glass (Find)
EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) ENCLOSURE (Monument Type England)
20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods) FARM (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) FARM (Monument Type England)
LATER PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) Plot (Monus)
Late Neolithicearly Bronze Age (Auto Detected Temporal)
Middle To Late Saxon (Auto Detected Temporal)
Modern (Auto Detected Temporal)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
1329 (Auto Detected Temporal)
Mid16th Century (Auto Detected Temporal)
Middle Iron Age (Auto Detected Temporal)
Saxon (Auto Detected Temporal)
Late Iron Age (Auto Detected Temporal)
Norman Conquest (Auto Detected Temporal)
EXCAVATION (Event)
12th Century (Auto Detected Temporal)
19th Century (Auto Detected Temporal)
Roman (Auto Detected Temporal)
PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods)
1st Centuries (Auto Detected Temporal)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
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OASIS Id: northamp3-128740
OBIB: Report No 12/44
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Created Date:		 25 Nov 2016