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What is recorded here

Mud, fire and tools marked the soil beneath Chapel Farm long before bricks arrived. A bone spindle whorl, an iron knife and a single pottery sherd recovered from defined pits and possible hearths suggest that people lived, made and discarded there across the early medieval and medieval periods. The earth kept those small acts intact, turning an ordinary greenfield into a room where absent hands still turn yarn, cut meat or warm themselves at dawn.

Test-excavation (Licence no. 01E0872Ext) of a greenfield site S of Church road identified a possible portion of the ecclesiastical enclosure (DU008-010006-) and evidence for habitation including ditches, pits, possible hearths and drainage. A bone spindle whorl and iron knife of probable early medieval date and a single sherd of medieval pottery were recovered from stratified layers in defined features indicating long-term settlement in the area. The features have been preserved within the open space of Chapel Farm housing estate (Baker 2001, 24). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 5 February 2015

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