ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a discussion and interpretation of the various strands of evidence recovered from the site associated with the extended period of rural medieval settlement and related activity. It begins with a detailed examination of the various late Saxon and medieval buildings and associated structures, leading to a reconstruction of their individual form, function, structural affinities and inferred status. The structural reconstructions are followed by an examination of the character and spatial arrangement of associated artefacts, which is used to illuminate the organisation, function and use of the principal structures and how that does or does not change through time. Whatever the detailed form of the roof structure, we can be far surer that it was covered with thatch, a material that would have been suitable to model and sweep to the suggested curved and hipped ends of the building.
