Monument record 1301/0/51 - Early and late Saxon settlement, The Orchard

Excavations at the Orchard site, as part of the Raunds Area project, identified early Saxon settlement which was abandoned by the middle Saxon period. The area was resettled in the late 9th-10th centuries when a series of rectilinear enclosures was laid out, ultimately becoming a row of peasant tenements

{1} Small-scale excavation at the Orchard in 1984-6 identified evidence of early Saxon settlement which was abandoned by the middle Saxon period. It was not resettled until the later 9th-10th centuries when a series of rectilinear enclosures were laid out. They ultimately became a row of peasant tenements called Rotton Row. Settlement here appears to have been abandoned in the medieval period, althou it is possible they were relocated closer to the Rotton Row street frontage.

<1> Dix B. (editor), 1986-7, The Raunds Area Project: Second Interim Report, p. 18-25 (Article). SNN76070.

<2> Parry S. et al, 2006, Raunds Area Survey: An Archaeological Study of The Landscape of Raunds, Northamptonshire 1985-94, p. 223-4 (Book). SNN105780.

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