The Archaeology of Medieval EnglandBritish Museum Publications, 1984 - 224 pages |
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... living close to the bread - line and often unable to move to better - favoured areas because of the nature of their tenancy . Decreasing life - expectancy and increasing infant mortality are recorded from the end of the thirteenth ...
... living close to the bread - line and often unable to move to better - favoured areas because of the nature of their tenancy . Decreasing life - expectancy and increasing infant mortality are recorded from the end of the thirteenth ...
Page 34
... living- room with a hearth and beyond that , beside the gable , a small ' inner room ' , which may have been intended to give a modicum of privacy to the elders in an otherwise essentially communal existence . The villeins who occupied ...
... living- room with a hearth and beyond that , beside the gable , a small ' inner room ' , which may have been intended to give a modicum of privacy to the elders in an otherwise essentially communal existence . The villeins who occupied ...
Page 39
... living - area and there must have been a smoke - hole in the roof for ventilation . There is no evidence for chimneys but there are sometimes traces , as at Hound Tor , of a wattle - and - daub canopy above the fire to help create a ...
... living - area and there must have been a smoke - hole in the roof for ventilation . There is no evidence for chimneys but there are sometimes traces , as at Hound Tor , of a wattle - and - daub canopy above the fire to help create a ...
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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