ABSTRACT
Although there is some slight evidence of activity on the site during the Anglo-Saxon period, in the form of a small group of sherds of pottery which were found stratified below the earliest levels of the chapel and Building Complex 10, no features or structures contemporary with this pottery were identified. The first recognisable occupation of the site did not begin therefore until the medieval period, with the construction of the buildings here described as belonging to phase-1. They predate phase-2 buildings but are not described in detail here. There is no evidence for either during phase-1 and it is suggested therefore that at this stage South Witham was the residence of estate workers, but not that of the Templars themselves. Site evidence shows that the watermill (Building 19) continued in use into this second major phase of the site's occupation.
