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Worcestershire Rec 60
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Worcestershire Rec 60
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Worcestershire Recorder
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Volume:
60
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Journal
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Year of Publication:
1999
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20 Jan 2002
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News from the city
James Dinn
4 - 5
Reports on various projects including excavations in the City Arcades area (where large amounts of Roman and medieval materials were unearthed); watching briefs at Back Lane South (where one of the largest assemblages of Roman building materials found in Worcester was uncovered, indicating the presence of one or more high-status buildings); a small excavation in Britannia Square (which produced foundation stone, a piece of mosaic and probable Roman soil); along with medieval and post-medieval pits at Hopmarket Yard.
The Droitwich canals: some historical notes
Richard Woodhurst
12 - 13
Discusses methods of construction and recent restoration. Particularly notes the contribution of James Brindley to eighteenth century canal engineering.
The mystery of the Hagley Park icunculus
Christine Buckley
14 - 16
Discusses the crude stone figure of a man with a terminal ending -- now lost -- which was noted by Treadway Nash in his Collections for the History of Worcestershire (1781--82) and pronounced to be Phœnician by authorities at the time. A sketch and a watercolour illustration of the object were discovered in the Society of Antiquaries Library, but no date has been assumed from this evidence.
John Noake -- Worcestershire antiquary
Robin Whittaker
Notes on and extracts from the autobiography of the Victorian author which intricately describes people and places of the 1880s and 1890s.
Pipemaking in Worcester
David Everett
Suggests that the initials FB found on tobacco pipes dated between 1660 and 1680 (see 81/8181) represent Francis Barker of St Nicholas parish. Also notes other pipemakers in the same area.
The Sites and Monuments Record
Victoria Buteux
Note on new Exegesis software implemented by the Archaeology Service which is specifically designed for SMRs and links maps to a series of databases.
Local history and archaeology in Shropshire
David C Cox
Reports on the work of the Victoria County History in Shrewsbury.
Recorded sherds
Brief notes on evidence that waggon drivers always drove on the left at Blunsdon Ridge Roman limestone quarry; new publications from the Dean Archaeology Group; the Alcester Web site at http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/fk26/localpast/index.htm; and the discovery of roof timbers dating from 1120--1150AD at St Mary's Church, Kempley, Gloucestershire.
The National Inventory of War Memorials
Lorraine Knight
Outlines the brief of the project based at the Imperial War Museum and particularly notes the body of evidence from Worcestershire including the more unusual design of a stone pillar topped by a pelican at Malvern Wells.
Roman Stretton Grandison
Keith Ray
Notes the observation of previously unrecognised Roman town defences from the air.
Recent work during Welsh Water mains renewal in Hereford
Andrew R Boucher
Reports on archaeological observations which have proved successful in establishing much of the layout of the early town. Particularly mentions: the areas of St Owen's Street and Eign Gate, where early roads were revealed; St Nicholas Street, where parts of a church were uncovered as well as a more cryptic pit of thirteenth century date; and Broad Street, where a number of gravel surfaces were unearthed, along with pre-Conquest pottery and fragments of opus signinum (which may indicate the presence of a high status Roman building in the area).
Malvern Hills Archaeological Survey: first results and future prospects
Mark Bowden
Reports on work at six scheduled sites including the discoveries of previously unrecorded hut circles at Midsummer Hill and traces of pre-hillfort enclosures at British Camp. Also outlines plans to sample woodland.