The Vernacular Threshold of Northern Peasant Houses

Abstract

From the 13th century onwards, medieval peasant houses were generally furnished with stone foundations. Yet they are usually supposed to have continued as 'impermanent' structures, able to survive only for decades. It is suggested here, on the basis of archaeological evidence from northern England, that such houses were in fact built to last for centuries; that they represent earlier generations of 'poor quality' permanent dwellings which have survived into recent times.

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