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Beaumont Palace and the White Friars: excavations at the Sackler Library, Beaumont Stree...
Daniel Poore
D Wilkinson
Excavations carried out in 1998 and 1999 at the site of Oxford University's Sackler Library development revealed evidence of Bronze Age and medieval remains. Two probable Bronze Age barrow ditches were identified, one of which lay largely within the project area and enclosed an area approximately 28 m across. The development site is thought to lie at the eastern limit of the precinct of Beaumont Palace, a royal residence immediately outside the north wall of the medieval city of Oxford and in use c. 1132--1318. Numerous medieval pits were found aligned in rows and possibly dug as tree planters. The dating suggests that they may have formed part of a formal garden associated with the palace. In the early fourteenth century, the palace site was granted to the Carmelite Friars. The excavations found evidence for a substantial east-west aligned buttressed stone building, which may originally have been build as part of the palace, but which ultimately formed part of the Friary complex. Slighter evidence for a second medieval building was revealed a short distance to the north-east. Excavation also revealed a number of stone-lined garden features relating to an early-nineteenth-century development of terraced housing on Beaumont Street and St John Street. Includes specialist reports on the historical and archaeological background; worked flint; pottery; window glass; window came; vessel glass; metal objects and worked bone; a jet bead; clay tobacco pipes; ceramic building material; worked architectural stone; animal bone; human skeletal remains; charred plant remains; mollusca; and marine shell.
2001
Excavation of the medieval waterfront at King Stable Street, Eton, Berks, 1997
Paul W Blinkhorn
Greg Pugh
Report of an excavation carried out on a site alongside the north bank of the Thames. The evidence indicated that the site probably served as a working area for properties fronting the approach (later High Street) to the north side of Windsor Bridge from the twelfth century onwards. Evidence was also found of a succession of timber revetments constructed to consolidate the riverbank, although these were evidently lightweight constructions, and did not serve as major wharfage. Late medieval and post-medieval activity on the site was characterised by low intensity craft or industrial pursuits, prior to the development of the site in the eighteenth century and the construction of a malthouse. Includes specialist reports on the pottery; leather; glass; the metal objects; lead objects; metalworking debris; bone, antler and ivory objects; ceramic building material; the wooden waterfront structures; animal bone; charred and waterlogged plant remains; and mollusca, including marine mollusca.
2000
The excavation of a medieval rural settlement at the Pepper Hill Lane electricity substation, Northfleet, Kent
Alan Hardy
Christopher Bell
An excavation in 1999 on land just north of the line of Watling Street, at the southern edge of the parish of Northfleet, found evidence of medieval occupation and settlement. This took the form of field boundaries, paddocks and vestigial structural remains, dating to the eleventh and twelfth centuries. It is suggested that this was part of the settlement known as Wenifalle in the late twelfth century, which survived as a nearby farm -- Wingfield Bank -- until the twentieth century. Includes specialist reports on the historical background; the pottery; ceramic building material and fired clay; flint and worked stone; metalwork; animal bone; small mammal, bird and fish remains; marine shells; and charred plant remains.
2001
The excavation of medieval and post-medieval remains at Poyle House, Berkshire
Stuart Foreman
Alan Hardy
Andrew Mayes
Archaeological excavations at the site of Poyle House, a derelict Georgian country house, revealed limited evidence of earlier buildings on the site. These comprised the beamslots of a possible farm range, and structural remains of the north wall of a medieval house. The buildings formed part of the medieval Poyle Manor, and limited artefactual evidence suggests that occupation began during the late eleventh or twelfth centuries. Some evidence for the layout of the house and outbuildings in the Georgian period, and later, was also recorded. Five worked flints were recovered, all residual in later contexts. Pieces present were of Mesolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age date (2000--1700 BC). Includes specialist reports on the archaeological and historical background; the pottery; building material; the metal objects; worked flint; animal bones; charred and waterlogged plant remains; and insects and molluscs.
2001
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