The Archaeology of Medieval EnglandBritish Museum Publications, 1984 - 224 pages |
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Page 35
... construction and appearance has to depend on what can be culled from contemporary descriptions and from excavation . Written evidence for the peasant house is slight , but Field's work on manorial court rolls for Worcestershire of the ...
... construction and appearance has to depend on what can be culled from contemporary descriptions and from excavation . Written evidence for the peasant house is slight , but Field's work on manorial court rolls for Worcestershire of the ...
Page 38
... construction of buildings which , by having their timbers resting on stone foundations or padstones , would last longer than houses with earth - fast posts . As different methods of construction could be in use at the same time , though ...
... construction of buildings which , by having their timbers resting on stone foundations or padstones , would last longer than houses with earth - fast posts . As different methods of construction could be in use at the same time , though ...
Page 57
... construction . This leaves us with one other explanation for the construction of moats , and one that cannot easily be illustrated by archaeological evidence . It is that moated sites were status symbols , first becoming fashionable ...
... construction . This leaves us with one other explanation for the construction of moats , and one that cannot easily be illustrated by archaeological evidence . It is that moated sites were status symbols , first becoming fashionable ...
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Abbey Anglo-Saxon Archaeol archaeological archaeological evidence archaeological excavation areas Barton Blount Bayeux Tapestry Benedictine Biddle buildings built centres Cistercian clay cloister cloth Cluniac construction countryside crofts deserted medieval villages discovered ditches documentary sources documentation early earthwork castles eleventh century English Essex example excavated evidence fifteenth century foundations fourteenth century GdaĆsk Goltho historical industry iron kilns King's Lynn known land late Lincolnshire London long-house M. W. Beresford manor manorial Mary Tanner Street masonry Medieval Archaeology Medieval Britain medieval England medieval towns methods Middle Ages moated sites monasteries monastic houses monks motte motte-and-bailey Norfolk Norman Northamptonshire Norton Priory parish church particularly peasant house period population post-Conquest pottery pre-Conquest Priory produced Reconstruction remains ring-work settlement St Mary Tanner stone structures surrounded surviving Sussex Tanner Street thirteenth century tiles timber tion tower twelfth century urban W. J. Rodwell walls Wharram Percy Winchester Yorkshire