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SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS
Excavations at Battersea Flour Mills, 1996--7: the medieval and post-medieval manor houses and later Thames-side industrial sites
Excavations by Wessex Archaeology in advance of redevelopment on the site of the former Battersea Flour Mills, revealed traces of medieval and early post-medieval structures likely to represent outbuildings of the manor of Battersea, which is thought to have been located nearby.
The principal discovery was the truncated remains of the post-medieval manor house, a substantial building built in an H-plan late in the late 16th or early 17th century. The structural remains included a well-preserved portion of brick-built cellar in the south wing and the ground plan of much of the north wing of the building. Subsequent additions included the construction of a new wing in the late 17th century, the riverside wall of which was faced with fine ashlar blocks. These blocks were clearly re-used in this wall, and the masonsâ marks on them suggest that they originally belonged to a high status medieval or early post-medieval structure. Much of the post-medieval manor house complex was demolished in the late 18th century, and the site occupied by malthouses and a mill complex.
Documentary studies have been able to shed significant light both on the results of the excavation of the medieval and post-medieval phases and on the development of Battersea as a whole.
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