Towards an archaeology of the free peasentry around the year 1000

The proposed theory of social segregation in a planned landscape may only apply to the 10th-11th century English Midlands. However, minor hall sites were undoubtedly more widespread. Similar sites almost certainly existed on the Continent and the recently published site at Colletière on Lac Paladru in eastern France has many similarities to West Cotton.

Archaeologists have the potential with the study of such sites of making a real contribution to the debate on the origins of feudal society.