Raunds
| Raunds | |||
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 21 ′ N , 0 ° 32 ′ W | ||
| OS National Grid | SP9972 | ||
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| Residents | 8641 (as of 2011) | ||
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| Post town | WELLINGBOROUGH | ||
| ZIP code section | NN9 | ||
| prefix | 01933 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | East Midlands | ||
| Shire county | Northamptonshire | ||
| District | East Northamptonshire | ||
| British Parliament | Corby | ||
Raunds is a small town in the English county of Northamptonshire .
geography
Raunds is located about 34 kilometers northeast of Northampton in the valley of the River Nene .
history
In the 1980s, extensive archaeological excavations were carried out in Raunds (the Raunds Area Project ). The oldest traces of human presence found in the process come from hunter and gatherer cultures of the Neolithic around 5000 BC. Around 3800 BC. AD can be indirectly livestock show areas were cleared and there were monumental earthworks built (including a 135-meter long mound and a long barrow ). Between 3000 BC Chr and approx. 2500 BC Chr. The area forested again and there are no traces of settlement to be found. Around 2200 BC In BC the area was heavily cleared and grazed, and 20 round barrows were erected, most of which were buried in bodies. These systems were also used in the subsequent period up to around 1000 BC. Chr used as burial sites, but now mainly for cremation. Traces of settlement from this time can also be seen on the flanks of the valley. Various round house settlements and large field boundaries can be identified from the Iron Age .
During the Roman era , an agricultural village structure slowly developed with round, later rectangular stone houses. One of the early Bronze Age barrows was reused as a temenos . A first brick well shaft was built and a place surrounded by a stone wall with two buildings that are believed to be temples or shrines. In the fourth century a villa with side wings was built, which was still used after the Romans left. Body burials with grave goods can be found from the time of the Anglo-Saxons .
In the Middle Ages, many Roman stones were reused for new buildings and vaulted bakers were created. The place was first mentioned in Anglo-Saxon documents around 980 as Randan , in the Domesday Book of 1086 it is listed as Rande .
In addition to agriculture, the shoe industry played an economic role in the village until the 1960s.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harding, J., Healy, F .: Summary. In: The Raunds Area Project Volume 2: A Neolithic and Bronze Age Landscape in Northamptonshire. English Heritage , 2011, p. Xxiv , accessed on July 31, 2017 (in English, the full report is available as a PDF (87 MB)).
- ↑ Vicky Crosby, Liz Muldowney: Raunds Area Project: Phasing the Iron Age and Romano-British settlement at Stanwick, Northamptonshire (excavations 1984-1992) . Archaeological Report: Volume I (= English Heritage [Hrsg.]: Research Department Report Series . No. 54-2011 ). 2013, ISSN 1749-8775 , p. 17 (English, online at Historic England (PDF; 2.28 MB)).
- ^ David Mills: A Dictionary of British Place-Names . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-960908-6 , pp. 385 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
