Archaeologists find remnants of Tewkesbury’s medieval past

A team of archaeologists from Cotswold Archaeology have uncovered a medieval farmhouse at Cowfield Farm, located in Tewkesbury, England.

The site is located at a former 18th-century brick farmhouse which is being developed following a fire in 2004.

According to the researchers, the origins of Cowfield Farm lie in the 12th/13th centuries when a farmhouse occupied the site surrounded by a rectangular enclosure. The earliest documentary reference to Cowfield dates to 1535 when it was part of a freehold estate belonging to Tewkesbury Abbey.

To the south was a sheepcote: a long, narrow…