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Marston Jabbett Medieval Settlement

Summary The possible extent of the medieval settlement at Marston Jabbett based on documentary evidence.
What Is It?  
Type: Settlement
Period: Medieval (1066 AD - 1539 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Nuneaton and Bedworth
District: Nuneaton and Bedworth, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 37 88
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 The possible extent of the medieval settlement based on the OS map of 1887, 17NW.
2Marston Jabbett appears with a tiny circle which is the sign for a village in Dugdale's map.
3 Quite a lot of settlement is shown on Greenwood's map.
4 Marston Jabbett is listed in Domesday in Brinklow Hundred. The Phillimore edition gives a grid ref of 3788. Ref 16,46 in Marston (Jabbett) 1 hide. Hereward holds from him. Land for 4 ploughs. In lordship 2; 1 female slave. 12 villagers and 8 smallholderrs with 4 ploughs. Meadow 6 acres. The value was and is £3.
5 The 1887 map shows a tiny hamlet with more spaces than plots or buildings. There must have been considerable shrinkage because Doomsday indicates a settlement of reasonable value, and the Dugdale and Greenwood maps also indicate a proper village, but the 1887 map gives few clues. The area has not been covered by ridge and furrow plotting, but the mapdata shows a little survival to the northwest and southeast.
 
Sources
Source No: 4
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Domesday Book Warwickshire incl Birmingham
Author/originator: Phillimore and Co Ltd
Date: 1976
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Source No: 5
Source Type: Desk Top Study
Title: Comments on villages and towns in the Medieval Settlement study.
Author/originator: Hester Hawkes.
Date: 2002/3
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Source No: 1
Source Type: Map
Title: 17NW 1:10560 1887
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1887
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Volume/Sheet: 17NW
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Map
Title: 1st edition 6" maps. Medieval settlement evaluation.
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1880s
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Map
Title: County of Warwick 1787
Author/originator: W Dugdale
Date: 1787
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Source No: 3
Source Type: Map
Title: Greenwood's Map of the County of Warwick 1822
Author/originator: Greenwood C & J
Date: 1822
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source Domesday Book The Domesday Book was commissioned in December 1085 by William the Conqueror, who invaded England in 1066. It contains records for about 13,000 medieval settlements in the English counties south of the rivers Ribble and Tees (the border with Scotland at the time). The Domesday Book is a detailed record of the lands and their resources that belonged to the king. It also records the identity of the landholders and their tenants. back
technique Documentary Evidence Documentary evidence is another name for written records. The first written records in Britain date back to the Roman period. Documentary evidence can take many different forms, including maps, charters, letters and written accounts. When archaeologists are researching a site, they often start by looking at documentary evidence to see if there are clues that will help them understand what they might find. Documentary evidence can help archaeologists understand sites that are discovered during an excavation, field survey or aerial survey. back
period Medieval 1066 AD to 1539 AD (the 11th century AD to the 16th century AD)

The medieval period comes after the Saxon period and before the post medieval period.

The Medieval period begins in 1066 AD.
This was the year that the Normans, led by William the Conqueror (1066 – 1087), invaded England and defeated Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in East Sussex.
The Medieval period includes the first half of the Tudor period (1485 – 1603 AD), when the Tudor family reigned in England and eventually in Scotland too.

The end of the Medieval period is marked by Henry VIII’s (1509 – 1547) order for the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the years running up to 1539 AD. The whole of this period is sometimes called the Middle Ages.
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monument VILLAGE * A collection of dwelling-houses and other buildings, usually larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a simpler organisation and administration than the latter. back
monument SETTLEMENT * A small concentration of dwellings. back
monument HAMLET * Small settlement with no ecclesiastical or lay administrative function. back
monument BUILDING * A structure with a roof to provide shelter from the weather for occupants or contents. Use specific type where known. back
monument RIDGE AND FURROW * A series of long, raised ridges separated by ditches used to prepare the ground for arable cultivation. This was a technique, characteristic of the medieval period. back
monument HIDE * A shelter, sometimes camouflaged, for the observation of birds and animals at close quarters. back
monument MEADOW * A piece of grassland, often near a river, permanently covered with grass which is mown for use as hay. back
monument SIGN * A board, wall painting or other structure displaying advice, giving information or directions back
monument TOWN * An assemblage of public and private buildings, larger than a village and having more complete and independent local government. back

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