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Refining the biography of a marketplace tenement: a recent excavation and archaeological interpretive survey at 'The Marlipins', Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex.
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Sussex Archaeological Collections 143 |
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Sussex Archaeological Collections
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143
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173 - 204 |
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ADS Terms of Use and Access
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| Publication Type: |
Journal
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| Abstract: |
In advance of its recent redevelopment, The Marlipins -- New Shoreham's sole remaining known medieval vernacular building and a local museum since the 1920s -- was subjected to a programme of archaeological survey and recording which has shed new light on its constructional history. Emphasis is placed on integrating new details relating to the earliest (twelfth-century) phase of the building, including the tree-ring dates returned by the heavy timber joists spanning the ground floor, which must now have a strong claim to be the earliest in-situ survivals of domestic structural timber-work in Sussex, and the buried foundations for a previously unknown north wall incorporating a rectangular stone-lined pit -- interpreted as the subterranean remnant of a first-floor garderobe. In addition to refining the chronology of its constituent phases, the opportunity has been taken to reassess the likely function of the building as originally intended. A wider archaeological context for the historic range was provided by the results of an adjoining excavation which uncovered the footings for a medieval timber building or buildings, a group of medieval and post-medieval pits and foundations for eighteenth- and nineteenth-century workshops and sheds. Finds from this sequence included the first closely-dated assemblages of post-medieval pottery and glass to have been recovered from the town. Includes an online supplement and separately authored contributions on |
| Year of Publication: |
2005
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| Postmedieval Pits (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Glass (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Timber Building (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Sheds (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Wall (Auto Detected Subject) |
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SHERD
(Object England)
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| Timber Joists (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Archaeological Survey (Auto Detected Subject) |
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ADS Archive
(ADS Archive)
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| Created Date: |
05 Mar 2007 |
