british and irish archaeological bibliography
A1 Tempsford Overbridge Scheme Archaeological Evealuation [Site name: TEMPSFORD - OVERBRIDGE SCHEME
Study area: 0.36ha
Investigation type: Evaluation
District: Mid Bedfordshire
Monument: SETTLEMENT. Early Medieval (410-1066), SETTLEMENT. Iron Age, SETTLEMENT. Roman (AD43-410), [Finds]. Early Medieval (410-1066), MOAT. Medieval (1066-1540)
Ngr: TL16005300
Parish: Tempsford
Postcode: SG192AT]
Pages:
46; figs; refs
Authors:
Published:
1993
Abstract:
An archaeological evaluation was carried out as part of an environmental assessment for the Tempsford Overbridge Scheme. The route of the main link road affected a moated enclosure which was subsequently investigated means of an earthwork survey, geophysical survey, trial trenches and boreholes as well as documentary research. The earliest domestic settlement dated from the Saxo-Norman period. The construction and initial occupation of the moat dated to the 12th-13th centuries.The excavation of the moat severely disturbed the earlier settlement. The ceramic assemblage suggested that occupation ceased in the 15th century. [Au(abr)]
Source description:
i, 46pp, figs, refs
Dataset:
Coverage:
1993