ABSTRACT
Besides the construction and subsequent desertion of the moated manor house at Caldecote and the construction of the church tower, Period three produced evidence for cob-walled peasant houses which were, in turn, themselves replaced by timber-framed buildings set upon stone sills in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. This chapter describes the archaeological evidence for those buildings. The Caldecote Extent of 1321 reveals that, besides the manor, there were sixteen messuages plus the priest's house. The boundaries of Crofts 1-8 remained delineated by the remains of the old field system with their narrow road frontage of some 23m, as at Wharram Percy. Three distinct types of pits were identified in this period. The quarry pits at Caldecote were cut into the Gault, but never into the chalk below. The pits were about 1.5m to 3.0m across and seldom more than 0.76m in depth.
