Wiltshire and Swindon Sites and Monument Record Information

SMR Number

SU08SW451

Site Name

Vasterne

Grid Ref

SU04858143

Parish

Wootton Bassett

Photographs

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District

North Wiltshire

Site Type

Settlement

Period

Late Medieval

X Y Grid Ref

404850, 181430

Altitude

114.3 metres

Geology

Upper Corallian

Description

Medieval settlement with a chapel, fishponds, and a prison site.

Details

Fasterne (Temp Edward 2nd 1307-27). A chapel and prison lay to north. Fishponds at the Wilderness, and the site of a conduit house

Sources

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 23, p176-9

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