The Archaeology of Medieval EnglandBritish Museum Publications, 1984 - 224 pages |
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... clay with stone facings and heavy rubble footings carrying wooden superstructures were all used as walling in separate but contemporaneous buildings and the houses at Draycott , Derbyshire , were built in all manner of ways , including ...
... clay with stone facings and heavy rubble footings carrying wooden superstructures were all used as walling in separate but contemporaneous buildings and the houses at Draycott , Derbyshire , were built in all manner of ways , including ...
Page 56
... clay - land situations of course , where good building - stone was not easily available , but similarly , not very suitable in a fortified site . In addition , few sites showed signs of being encircled by any feature more defensive than ...
... clay - land situations of course , where good building - stone was not easily available , but similarly , not very suitable in a fortified site . In addition , few sites showed signs of being encircled by any feature more defensive than ...
Page 126
... clay ( Southampton ) or clay and shale ( Launceston , Cornwall ) . Some had their surfaces covered with clay ( North- ampton , Oxford and Winchester ) or surrounded by wooden shuttering ( Goltho , Lincolnshire , and Huntingdon ) . Some ...
... clay ( Southampton ) or clay and shale ( Launceston , Cornwall ) . Some had their surfaces covered with clay ( North- ampton , Oxford and Winchester ) or surrounded by wooden shuttering ( Goltho , Lincolnshire , and Huntingdon ) . Some ...
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Abbey Anglo-Saxon appear Archaeol archaeological archaeological evidence areas aspects Benedictine Beresford Biddle buildings built carried castles centres changing church Cistercian clay cloth common concentrated construction continued crofts discovered distribution documentary documentation domestic early eleventh England English evidence example excavation farm fields firing floor foundations fourteenth Goltho ground historical houses illustrated important increased indicate individual industry instance interest iron kilns known land late later London materials Medieval Archaeology medieval towns medieval village mentioned methods Middle Ages moated sites monasteries monastic motte needed Norman occupied orders origins parish particularly past peasant period population possible pottery present preserved probably produced question reasons recent remains result seems seen settlement shown sources standing stone Street structures suggest Sulgrave surrounded thirteenth century throughout tiles timber tion tower towns trade twelfth urban usually walls Winchester