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Anglo-Saxon and medieval settlement at the former Post Office Training Establishment, Wolverton Mill, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Excavations 2004 |
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Northamptonshire Archaeology unpublished report series
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| Abstract: |
A single sunken-featured building is dated to the 5th century, but further sunken-featured buildings and probable post-built houses may only have come into use in the 7th or early 8th centuries. A small pit containing an unusual hoard comprising two iron spearheads and a seax, much of a lava quern, two bone combs and a woolcombing heckle, was probably a contemporary deposit. In the middle Saxon period, perhaps the mid 8th century, a large rectangular ditched enclosure was created and later remodelled. Only the northern end lay within the excavated area, but the southern end had been located in previous excavations, suggesting that the enclosure was 200m long by 150m wide, encompassing some 3ha. It may have served as an animal corral for an estate centre. Some ditches to the north may have been contemporary boundaries, but it was difficult to differentiate these from a system of linear boundary ditches introduced in the late Saxon period, the 10th century, presumably as part of the setting out of the medieval village of Wolverton. The late Saxon ditched boundaries and the hollow-way shared the same alignment as the middle Saxon enclosure, but did not impinge upon it, suggesting either continuity of function or at least of status. The late Saxon/Saxo-Norman domestic activity comprised a number of small post-built houses, with associated cess pits, set within plots with ditched or fence sub-divisions. There were also two wells, one of which was near a malting/drying oven and evidence that flax working was carried out. Settlement here was abandoned by the end of the 12th century, although some pit digging continued to the 14th century, related to the nearby core of medieval Wolverton. A sequence of boundary ditches alongside the hollow-way can be traced through to the present day. Some limestone quarrying took place in the 17th-19th centuries, but otherwise the site had been utilised as farmland. |
| Author: |
A Chapman
P Chapman
A Thorne
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| Publisher: |
Northamptonshire Archaeology
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| Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Milton Keynes SMR (OASIS Reviewer)
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| Year of Publication: |
2011
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| Locations: |
| Site: |
Wolverton Mill |
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WOLVERTON |
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Milton Keynes |
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Buckinghamshire |
| Country: |
England |
| Location - Auto Detected: |
Wolverton |
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Grid Reference: 480200, 240900 (Easting, Northing)
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MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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Pottery, Charred Seeds
(Find)
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EARLY MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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Pottery, Lava Quern, Spearheads, Saex, Charred Seeds
(Find)
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MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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Post-Built Houses, Wells, Malting Oven, Pits, Hollow-Way
(Monus)
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EARLY MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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Sunken-Features Buildings, Post-Built House, Ditched Enclosure, Boundary Ditches
(Monus)
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| Middle Saxon (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Late Saxon (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Mid 8th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| 14th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| 7th (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| 5th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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EXCAVATION
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| 10th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| 12th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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| Identifiers: |
| OASIS Id: |
northamp3-159468 |
| OBIB: |
11/50 |
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A4, blue spine, heat bonded, clear covers
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| Created Date: |
28 Nov 2016 |
