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Title:

Archaeological Investigation at Piper's Cottage Piper's Hill, Great Gaddesden, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 3BY (NGR TL 02728 11075)

Series:

Souterrain Archaeological Services Ltd unpublished report series

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5284/1100466

Publication Type:

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Abstract:

In July 2014, Souterrain Archaeological Services Limited undertook archaeological investigation and recording during ground preparation for a new two storey rear annexe to Piper's Cottage, a grade II listed local vernacular building at Piper's Hill, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire. The building was thought to date from the late 16th century. A level II historic building survey earlier in 2014 concluded however, that the existing building shows no signs of having been constructed earlier than the late 18th or early 19th century, although utilised earlier materials. Historic documents of 17th and 18th century date, however, highlighted the potential for earlier buildings at the site, one of which lay to the immediate southeast of Piper's Cottage, within the proposed development footprint. Investigation during ground works revealed evidence of a post-medieval house in the form of floors, the position of two former walls, a brick-built chimney / hearth and a cellar. Pottery indicated occupancy of the dwelling in the 17th and 18th centuries. The demolition of the building is likely to have taken place in the late 18th or early 19th century. The post-medieval building was situated on a domestic midden deposit dated by pottery to the 12th / 13th century, which strongly suggests that the plot had been the site of a medieval tenement. Notably, a series of small enclosures surviving as earthworks, adjoin the plot to the southwest, further suggesting that a row of medieval tenements or crofts stood along the roadside at Piper's Hill. To date, the discoveries represent the most significant body of archaeological evidence for medieval settlement at Great Gaddesden. Other discoveries comprised a well,s understood to have been contemporary with the existing house, and a nearby low structure built of brick and tile, post-medieval in date though of uncertain function.

Author:

Martin D Wilson

Publisher:

Souterrain Archaeological Services Ltd

Year of Publication:

2014

Locations:

Parish:	Great Gaddesden
County:	Hertfordshire
District:	Dacorum
Country:	England

Grid Reference: 502726, 211074 (Easting, Northing)

Subjects / Periods:

UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
	FLOOR (Monument Type England)
	POST MEDIEVAL CELLAR (Tag)
	WATCHING BRIEF (Event)
	POST MEDIEVAL ROOF TILE (Tag)
	MEDIEVAL MIDDEN (Tag)
	CELLAR (Monument Type England)
	WELL (Monument Type England)
	POST MEDIEVAL WELL (Tag)
	POST MEDIEVAL FLOOR (Tag)
	MIDDEN (Monument Type England)
	STRUCTURE (Monument Type England)
	UNCERTAIN STRUCTURE (Tag)
	ROOF TILE (Object England)

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OASIS Id:

souterra1-190012

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Created Date:

13 Oct 2022