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Cottam, Cowlam and environs: an Anglo-Saxon estate on the Yorkshire Wolds. / Richards, Julian D; Ashby, Steve; Austin, Tony; Haldenby, David; Hummler, Madeleine; Jelley, Elizabeth; Richardson, Jane; Roskams, Steve; Niven, Kieron.
In: The Archaeological Journal, Vol. 170, No. 1, 2014, p. 201-271.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Cottam, Cowlam and environs: an Anglo-Saxon estate on the Yorkshire Wolds
AU - Richards, Julian D
AU - Ashby, Steve
AU - Austin, Tony
AU - Haldenby, David
AU - Hummler, Madeleine
AU - Jelley, Elizabeth
AU - Richardson, Jane
AU - Roskams, Steve
AU - Niven, Kieron
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - From 1993–95 investigation of a so-called ‘productive site’ known as Cottam B revealed an Anglo-Saxon settlement occupied during the eighth to ninth centuries AD, succeeded in the late ninth to early tenth century by an Anglo-Scandinavian farmstead. The final report concluded that the Anglo-Saxon settlement may have been an outlying farming and hunting dependency set within a royal estate centred upon Driffield, but that following the Viking partition of East Yorkshire it developed into an independent proto-manor. In subsequent years, fieldwork was undertaken at other early medieval sites in the immediate locality. At Cottam A (in 1996) and later at Church Farm, Cowlam (in 2003), contemporary Anglo-Saxon occupation was revealed at both sites. These sites provide a local context for the results from Cottam B, and show widespread and dispersed settlement foci in this part of the Wolds in the eighth and ninth centuries. They illuminate how a number of outlying dependencies of a single estate were interrelated, and how they contributed to the evolution of the Late Saxon and medieval settlement pattern. This paper provides a summary report of the archaeology of Cottam A and Cowlam with a supporting digital archive, and draws conclusions about the nature of the activities and interrelationships within the proposed Anglo-Saxon estate in which these settlements were likely to have been situated.
AB - From 1993–95 investigation of a so-called ‘productive site’ known as Cottam B revealed an Anglo-Saxon settlement occupied during the eighth to ninth centuries AD, succeeded in the late ninth to early tenth century by an Anglo-Scandinavian farmstead. The final report concluded that the Anglo-Saxon settlement may have been an outlying farming and hunting dependency set within a royal estate centred upon Driffield, but that following the Viking partition of East Yorkshire it developed into an independent proto-manor. In subsequent years, fieldwork was undertaken at other early medieval sites in the immediate locality. At Cottam A (in 1996) and later at Church Farm, Cowlam (in 2003), contemporary Anglo-Saxon occupation was revealed at both sites. These sites provide a local context for the results from Cottam B, and show widespread and dispersed settlement foci in this part of the Wolds in the eighth and ninth centuries. They illuminate how a number of outlying dependencies of a single estate were interrelated, and how they contributed to the evolution of the Late Saxon and medieval settlement pattern. This paper provides a summary report of the archaeology of Cottam A and Cowlam with a supporting digital archive, and draws conclusions about the nature of the activities and interrelationships within the proposed Anglo-Saxon estate in which these settlements were likely to have been situated.
U2 - 10.1080/00665983.2013.11021005
DO - 10.1080/00665983.2013.11021005
M3 - Article
VL - 170
SP - 201
EP - 271
JO - The Archaeological Journal
JF - The Archaeological Journal
SN - 0066-5983
IS - 1
ER -