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Archaeological watching brief at Birmingham City University, Phase II, Birmingham, June to August 2013 |
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Northamptonshire Archaeology unpublished report series
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northamp3-166199_1.pdf (8 MB)
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Publication Type: |
Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
An archaeological watching brief was carried out by Northamptonshire Archaeology during groundworks at Birmingham City University, located in the city centre, West Midlands. The site remained as open fields, parkland and gardens until the mid-19th century. In the 1850s the area was developed with the construction of domestic housing and a public house in the west. What survived were the brick-lined cellars with brick floors and coal chutes and the brick footings of rows of back-to-back terraced houses, with communal yards and brick-lined wells. A series of brick buildings on Penn Street had been accessed through an entrance with brick piers and a surface of granite setts. A collapsed cellar on one frontage may have been the result of bomb damage during the Second World War. The pottery was consistently late 19th century with printed blue and white china, glassware and clay tobacco-pipe stems. To the east there had been late 19th-century industrial buildings with a crucible and firebrick factory and a saw mill to the north. The southern area had been dominated by a canal-side wharf and a series of buildings with only brick walls, some constructed with blue engineering bricks, a large brick-lined cellar and two brick piers surviving The site had remained relatively unchanged until the 1940s where sufficient bomb damage during World War II may have required the site to be cleared leaving only the industrial buildings to the east, including the sawmills and a wireworks. These were then demolished in the later half of the 20th century. |
Author: |
J Elston
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Publisher: |
Northamptonshire Archaeology
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Birmingham City Council (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2013
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Locations: |
Site: |
Penn Street |
Parish: |
BIRMINGHAM |
District: |
Birmingham |
County: |
West Midlands |
Country: |
England |
Location - Auto Detected: |
Birmingham |
Location - Auto Detected: |
Penn Street |
Location - Auto Detected: |
West Midlands |
Grid Reference: 408070, 287270 (Easting, Northing)
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Subjects / Periods: |
20TH CENTURY
(Historic England Periods)
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SHERD
(Object England)
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POST MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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Pottery, Bricks, Clay Tobacco-Pipe, Bottles
(Find)
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POST MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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Buried Soil
(Monus)
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20TH CENTURY
(Historic England Periods)
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Domestic And Industrial Buildings
(Monus)
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POST MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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Domestic And Industrial Buildings
(Monus)
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20th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
Mid19th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
Late 19th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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WATCHING BRIEF
(Event)
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BURIED SOIL HORIZON
(Monument Type England)
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Identifiers: |
OASIS Id: |
northamp3-166199 |
OBIB: |
13/249 |
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Note: |
A4, blue spine, heat bound, clear covers
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Created Date: |
28 Nov 2016 |