Brighton Hill South (Hatch Warren): an Iron Age Farmstead and Deserted Medieval Village in Hampshire
P J Fasham, G Keevill & D Coe
Description
Excavations in advance of housing development on the outskirts of Basingstoke revealed extensive evidence of Iron Age, Roman, and medieval occupation.
A series of Early–Late Iron Age enclosure complexes, including a banjo enclosure, contained evidence for zones of domestic settlement which includes pits, four-post structures, and extensive assemblages of artefacts, bone, and carbonised plant remains.
Site A contained the remains of a medieval church with associated graveyard and domestic structures. A two-cell church of 11th–12th century date survived as wall foundations surrounded by fenced graveyard. At least six timber buildings and associated pits and post-holes indicate unenclosed settlement close by.
In the late 12th–14th centuries the graveyard was enclosed by ditches and at least 250 burials made. A priest was buried in the church with a pewter patan and chalice. Further wooden buildings, pits, an oven, and a trackway form part of an enclosed settlement - probably the lost medieval village of Hatch.
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