Devon Archaeol Soc Proc 63

Excavation for a new pipeline across part of the complex of prehistoric and Roman military sites at North Tawton examined part of a Romano-British enclosure ditch, a trackway of probable late Roman date and a post-medieval mill leat. Assessment of three pollen samples from a prehistoric soil beneath these features indicated an open environment.

A watching brief at Pigs Paradise, Lundy, in 2000 recovered 1451 sherds of pottery from a trench which may have cut through the site of a medieval farmstead. They date largely to c. 1150--1350. Most are of North Devon type, but wares from west and south Somerset, Bristol and Wiltshire are also represented. Petrological examination, Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Analysis and -Mass Spectrometry have been employed in studying the collection. Two sherds of imported Dark Age amphorae (one of British Class Bii) and a small collection of lithics are also recorded. Separately authored contributions include

The remains of a medieval gatehouse have been identified in the boundary wall of the former Chancellor's house in Cathedral Close, Exeter. The structural sequence evident in the boundary wall is described and it is suggested that part of the wall survives from the enclosure of the Bishop's Palace which preceded the establishment of the Chancellor's house on this site. The relationship between the gatehouse and other components of the medieval house is discussed.

Fort Charles, Salcombe, is a small coastal artillery fort, probably built in the mid 1540s. It was rebuilt as a Royalist fortification in 1643 and besieged by Parliamentarian forces, surrendering in 1646. Building survey has shown that the sixteenth-century fort had an irregular ground-plan, with a battery accommodating six cannons facing the sea, and a tower and kitchen behind. On the first floor were domestic quarters; above these was a gun-platform. The Civil War rebuilding took the form of strengthening of the landward side of the defences. Separately authored contributions include

Since 1999, the North Devon Archaeological Society has undertaken research and survey of the fish weirs located towards the mouths of the rivers Taw and Torridge. The paper documents the results, details the methodology, makes typological comparisons, examines documentary evidence and relates the story of the various interests who have laid claim to the resources of the estuaries from Saxon times through to the present day. Includes

During 1999--2000 part of a large deposit of pottery waste was recovered from the site of the Stella Maris Convent School in Bideford. The collection provides an opportunity to study a sample of ceramics from this potting town. A stratified group contains sgraffito-decorated ware dating to the 1750s; the rest of the material is broadly late-seventeenth-century in date. A revised type-series of North Devon wares an a classification of the most common patterns are offered. Includes

Report on the identification through fieldwalking of quantities of worked flint and debitage, and one sherd of pottery from a straight-sided vessel, on the ridge of St John's Hill, Honiton, near Hembury.

Note on a trial excavation carried out in 1988 on earthworks to the southeast of Rudge Farm, Morchard Bishop, which revealed that the earthworks overlay structural remains including a length of stone wall and a beaten clay floor which contained small fragments of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century pottery. It is suggested that the remains are those of a domestic structure which was the predecessor of the current house.