Early Medieval settlements in Northwest Europe, c. AD 400-900: the social aspects of settlement layout
Helena Hamerow
This paper considers how the changing layout of settlements between c. 400-900 in region southern Scandinavia and Netherlands reflects important socio-economic developments. These changes can be observed both at level individual farmstead, within as a whole. Rules for out farmsteads villages become particularly pronounced eighth ninth centuries, suggesting that social roles may have more circumscribed structure rural production altered with emergence 
carolingian scandinavian hegemonies.