ABSTRACT
Period three at Caldecote is marked by the construction of the moated manor house in the early thirteenth century, followed by its development and then desertion in around 1360. This chapter discusses the evidence for the church and moated site. The second structural phase of the church in the early fourteenth century was marked by the addition of a clunch-built tower, the new work being readily differentiated from the flint walls of the Norman period. The moated enclosure was probably established at the time of the subinfeudation of the manor in c1225. It lay to the south-west of the church, alongside the ancient trackway running between Stotfold and Ashwell. The first manor house stood in the north-east corner of the moated enclosure on a NE-SW alignment and was probably built by Gerard de Furnivall in or about 1225. Two shallow wells and a water-pit ranging were found close to the north-western side of the hall.
