Poore, D., Score, D. and Dodd, A. J. (2007). Excavations at No. 4A Merton St., Merton College, Oxford:. Oxoniensia 71. Vol 71, pp. 211-341.
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Excavations at No. 4A Merton St., Merton College, Oxford: | ||||||||||||||||||
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the evolution of a medieval stone house and tenement and an early college property | ||||||||||||||||||
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Oxoniensia 71 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Oxoniensia | ||||||||||||||||||
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71 | ||||||||||||||||||
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211 - 341 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Excavations were carried out in the back yard of 4A Merton Street between 2000 and 2002, in advance of redevelopment. Early eleventh-century occupation of the site was apparent from pottery evidence, but the earliest structural remains relate to horn working, probably during the later-eleventh century. Pictorial and excavated evidence suggests that the standing building on the Merton Street frontage of the site was constructed around 1200, with a back range. This stone mansion was occupied by a burgess family called Edrich from c. 1228, passing to Merton College in the late-thirteenth century. The college subsequently demolished the back range and built a new stone house on the Kybald Street frontage that was itself demolished by the end of the fourteenth century. The excavations uncovered large numbers of pits associated both with the domestic occupation of the site between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, and subsequently with its use from the late-fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century for the dumping of stable waste and general refuse from the main college site across the road. The large finds and environmental assemblages provide an insight into the diet and standards of living of a thirteenth-century burgess family and an early Oxford college. Items of particular note include rare high lead vessel glass, unusual quantities of ceramic lamps, and plant remains possibly deriving from medieval ornamental trees and medicinal herbs. Fragments of architectural stone found during the excavations are likely to derive from the original windows of the stone mansion. Separately authored contributions include | ||||||||||||||||||
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2007 | ||||||||||||||||||
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[OS SP 5172 0614] | ||||||||||||||||||
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15 Nov 2007 |
