The South Lanes, Carlisle: Specialist Fascicules
Mike McCarthy, Oxford Archaeology North, 2010. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000182. How to cite using this DOI
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Introduction
From 1978 to 1982, Carlisle Archaeological Unit (CAU) carried out a programme of archaeological excavation and standing building recording, funded in part by the then Department of the Environment, prior to the redevelopment of the Lanes, a densely built-up area of approximately 2.8ha (6.9 acres) situated within the north-east angle of Carlisle's medieval city defences (NY 4015 5606). In total, some 26 excavation trenches were opened over the site as a whole, and a further 20 areas were subjected to watching brief.
Following completion of the fieldwork and basic post-excavation processing, the project remained static for several years. During the 1990s, however, English Heritage (EH) provided funding for a programme of analysis leading to publication. To facilitate this work, the project was sub-divided into the southern and northern Lanes, of which the latter formed by far the largest element (c 83%, in terms of context numbers issued, or c 68%, in terms of areas subjected to full, controlled excavation). In line with the approach to publication adopted by CAU for earlier projects, it was envisaged that the Lanes would be published as a series of monograph reports accompanied by a larger number of specialist fascicules. The monographs would, in effect, provide a synthesis and discussion of the stratigraphic sequences and standing building records, supported by abridged reports on the principal classes of artefactual and environmental data. Full reports on the artefactual and environmental assemblages were to be published separately in the form of spiral-bound fascicular volumes. For the south Lanes, it was envisaged that three fascicules, dealing with the stratigraphic sequence and environmental remains (Fascicule 1), the artefacts (Fascicule 2), and the pottery (Fascicule 3), would accompany the monograph.
The South Lanes monograph was published in 2000, by which time CAU had transferred from Carlisle City Council to the University of Bradford, to become Carlisle Archaeology Ltd (CAL). The accompanying fascicules (the contents of which are tabulated in the monograph) never appeared, however, although copies of mock-ups for all three have been located, and there is evidence that work on preparing these reports for publication was well advanced immediately prior to the demise of CAL in August 2001.
English Heritage commissioned Oxford Archaeology North (OA North) to bring the three draft South Lanes fascicules to a standard where they could be made available on-line through the Archaeology Data Service (ADS). The commissioned work involved a combination of converting the original texts to PDFs, some minor corrections and limited redrawing of existing line drawings.
