Abstract

SHORTER ARTICLES & NOTES Field survey at Grafton Regis: a village plan explained? Anthony E Brown The excavations at Wharram Percy have shown how the physical remains of earlier occupation, such as tracks and field boundaries, have influenced the form and siting of later occupation features (Hurst 1983). Other excavations, as at West Whelpington in Northumberland (Evans, Jarrett & Wrathmell1988) and Burton Dassett in Warwickshire (Palmer 1987; 1988), have provided examples of the opposite, where villages have been set down on hitherto unoccupied sites. In these instances; this understanding has been achieved through either or extensive excavation, or both. long term Earthwork survey can sometimes throw up suggestive results in the matter of the earlier phases of a village's development, but this kind of evidence on its own can seldom be conclusive. Occasions sometimes arise however when the overploughing of sites, permitting fieldwalking, along with the survey of the earthworks which were there before or which still remained, can produce a more WHITTLEWOOO comprehensive picture. This note describes the results of such survey work carried out by students of the Department of Adult Education of Leicester FOREST University at Grafton Regis in Northamptonshire at various times during the period