West, S. E. (1971). Excavation of the town defences at Tayfen Road, Bury St Edmunds, 1968. Proc Suffolk Inst Archaeol 32 (1). Vol 32(1), pp. 17-24.
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Excavation of the town defences at Tayfen Road, Bury St Edmunds, 1968 |
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Issue The name of the volume or issue |
Proc Suffolk Inst Archaeol 32 (1) |
Series The series the publication or report is included in |
Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology |
Volume Volume number and part |
32 (1) |
Page Start/End The start and end page numbers. |
17 - 24 |
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Journal |
Abstract The abstract describing the content of the publication or report |
[TL 8564]. No dating evidence was recovered for the construction of the rampart, either from the rampart itself or from beneath it. However, the excavation showed that the medieval defences along this stretch of the boundary had never been provided with a stone wall in spite of the documentary evidence which suggests the sacrist Hervey's wall ran right round the town. It remains a possibility that Willlam of Malmesbury may have been right in quoting the tradition that Cnut built a ditch round the town. An assemblage of over 500 flints from the gravel core of the rampart is of Sauveterrian character; graphs show their lengths, breadths and length-breadth ratios. A tanged flint was among those found. Au(amp) |
Year of Publication The year the book, article or report was published |
1971 |
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05 Dec 2008 |
