The Ironbridge Gorge is the physical embodiment of the profound technological and social changes that underlie the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries.
This volume collates material relating to approximately 1350 vessels from over 200 sites, encompassing the full spectrum of glass use during the medieval period and providing a central source of reference for the identification and study of medieval glass vessels.
Excavation and Survey in a Prehistoric Landscape 1993–7
by Alex Gibson
The Walton Basin lies on the Welsh borderland and is a discrete lowland parcel of land which is surrounded by uplands. Numerous flint scatters and monuments have been discovered which date from the Mesolithic to the Roman invasion and indeed later.
The assemblage of Middle-Saxon glass fragments from the settlement at Saxon Hamwic (Southampton) ranks as one of the most important of its period anywhere in Europe.
In 1994 the distorted timbers of a medieval boat came to light at Magor Pill, on the coast of the Gwent Levels, when storms washed away the sediments which had covered them since the boat ran aground about 700 years ago.
Excavations at the Park and West Parade 1970–2 and a discussion of other sites excavated up to 1994
The Archaeology of Lincoln series: Vol VII–2
by Christina Colyer, Brian JJ Gilmour and Michael J Jones. Edited by Michael J Jones
This latest report, the largest to date in the Archaeology of Lincoln series, forms a companion volume to those on the Upper Defences (1980, 1984) and includes accounts of the impressive remains of the defences.
This catalogue brings together over 500 examples of a type of late Saxon mount thought to be stirrup fittings. With its detailed drawings and descriptions of so wide a range of stirrup-strap mounts, this book will be particularly invaluable to museum curators and finds researchers.
This report on the excavation of St Bartholomew’s Hospital in Bristol is of special significance, as relatively few hospitals have been excavated on any great scale. The book describes in detail the history of St Bartholomew’s, and how it competed for resources to provide refuge and care in one of the most prominent medieval cities.
The site at Caldicot, located on the alluviated floodplain of the river Nedern, a small tributary of the Severn Estuary, south-west Britain, comprised a complex sequence of alluvium and palaeochannels dating from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.
This handbook is primarily designed to raise standards and is intended for students and for those working in archaeological illustration. It is a showpiece of some fine illustrators, working in quite different ways.
Garden Archaeology looks at the methods used for this sub-discipline. The book traces the development of the genre with particular reference to the advances made in the last 20 years.
part of the ‘Craft, Industry and Everyday Life’ series
by Quita Mould, Ian Carlisle and Esther Cameron
This volume presents the surviving evidence for the manufacture and use of leather artefacts at York during the Anglo-Scandinavian and medieval periods.
part of the ‘Craft, Industry and Everyday Life’ series
by Carole A Morris
The definitive study of over 1500 wooden objects and wood and iron woodworking tools recovered from some of the most important sites in York. Ranging from Anglo-Scandinavian (c850–1066) to later medieval (15th–16th century) in date the collection published here is an assemblage unprecedented from any site of any period in Britain.
Reports on the finds other than pottery recovered during three excavations with the fortress of York, at Blake Street and Swinegate in the praetentura and the Purey Cust Nuffield Hospital in the retentura. This is the largest collection of Roman artefacts to have been published from York.
The pottery from this site reveals the changing patterns of ceramic use within the legionary fortress of Eboracum. Excavations at 9 Blake Street resulted in the recovery of the longest sequence of Roman pottery seen in York to date. Of particular interest was material deposited during the early military occupation of York, which included a large group of unused South Gaulish samian and quantities of early Flavian fine wares, plus an unusual assemblage of lamps.
The Anglian assemblage from this site includes local, regional and imported wares. Excavations were carried out by York Archaeological Trust at 46-54 Fishergate in 1985-6. The site is located well outside the area of the Roman fortress and canabae on the north side of the River Ouse near its confluence with the River Foss.
This report examines the 9,500 sherds of Roman pottery from two sites within the colonia of York. A dating framework is based mainly on the samian ware and mortaria, and there is a discussion of the application of statistical analyses to the wares grouped by fabric and period. This is followed by a report on amphorae from York, which emphasises the important position held by Spanish olive oil and French wine in the economy of the area.
The 1985–6 excavations at 46-54 Fishergate provided the first opportunity nationally to excavate to modem standards a house of the Gilbertine order, and the first opportunity in York to investigate a substantial area of Anglian occupation of the 8th–9th centuries AD. It was, therefore, one of the most important excavations to have been undertaken in the city to date.
This report deals with biological evidence from two sites within the area of the Roman civil town or colonia close to the River Ouse and the probable Roman river crossing.
The excavation of St Andrew, Fishergate uncovered the largest quantity of window glass from any house of this monastic order. Research on this glass provided the opportunity to study all other known assemblages of window glass associated with the Gilbertines, and the results and interpretations are presented here.
Excavations revealed an extensive area of a late 10th–12th century settlement and the well-preserved Gilbertine Priory of St Andrew, founded in 1195. The priory underwent a series of changes throughout its lifetime, and was almost completely rebuilt on a smaller scale during the mid 14th century, but was demolished in 1538. This report includes historical and environmental evidence, details of the architectural fragments, window glass, floor and roof tiles and wall plaster from the priory.
Excavation of four medieval properties in Coppergate, a street known to be particularly prosperous in the 13th–15th centuries, has revealed the most extensive archaeological view of an 11th- to 17th-century secular townscape ever recovered in York.
