Archaeologia Aeliana Series 5

Reports a site uncovered during pipe-laying work and comprising an apparently heptagonal slot with a south west facing entrance and timber porch structure enclosing an inner ring of seven posts.

Outlines the scheduling and guardianship of the Wall and describes the recording programme recently undertaken in aid of the better management and understanding of those parts of the Wall for which the State is directly responsible. There follows `Appendix 1' (75) details portions of Hadrian's Wall in the guardianship of the Secretary of State for National Heritage and `Appendix 2' (76--7) records the Hadrian's Wall drawing archive up to December 1993.

Reports the excavation of a section of the medieval town wall and the Riverside Tower south of the Close Gate, to identify the precise location and investigate the relationship between their construction and the development of the medieval waterfront on The Close. Specialist reports cover pottery (medieval--post-medieval), clay pipes, glass (vessel and window), coins, copper alloy artefacts, lead, iron objects, shale, amber, leather, bone objects, building materials, masons' marks, and graffiti. There are also reports on: `Plant remains' by J P Huntley (134--44); `Soils' by Robert S Shiel (144--5); and `Petrology' by Tim Pettigrew (145).

A full architectural description of the buildings (the Moot Hall and the Old Gaol) including an outline of their structural history (use, repair, and alterations), along with a summary of the other buildings within the area of the former `Archbishop's Precinct'.

A brief overview of fords and ferries followed by details of bridges. Includes an appendix detailing the Trevelyan Papers (251--2).

Presents two notes on: `A stone head from Walker' by Lindsay Allason-Jones (263--5), a `Celtic head' found in 1936 and thought to represent a link between the second-century AD cult of the head and the building of Hadrian's Wall; and `Jet and other materials in Roman artefact studies' by L Allason-Jones & D M Jones (265--72), detailing similar materials including cannel coal, detrital coal, and shales.

Details fragments of pottery from a single funerary vessel. The complete object is thought to have resembled an enlarged food vessel in profile. Parallels are drawn with similar examples in northern England and Scotland.