The Archaeology of Medieval EnglandBritish Museum Publications, 1984 - 224 pages |
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... surrounded by moats ( B ) . After C. C. Taylor 1978 moat is a broad , flat - bottomed ditch not less than 5m wide , which may completely , or partially , isolate a platform that is devoid of any defensive bank ' ; ” ' an area of ground ...
... surrounded by moats ( B ) . After C. C. Taylor 1978 moat is a broad , flat - bottomed ditch not less than 5m wide , which may completely , or partially , isolate a platform that is devoid of any defensive bank ' ; ” ' an area of ground ...
Page 59
... surrounded by boundary ditches or drainage ditches as at Bradwell Bury , Buckinghamshire " where four timber buildings stood in crofts surrounded by ditches im wide and Im deep . The area where they lay was subsequently occupied by a ...
... surrounded by boundary ditches or drainage ditches as at Bradwell Bury , Buckinghamshire " where four timber buildings stood in crofts surrounded by ditches im wide and Im deep . The area where they lay was subsequently occupied by a ...
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... surrounded at its base by a moat and at its summit by a palisade encircling a wooden tower . Archaeologists and hist- orians alike assumed that the mound of earth was thrown up first and the tower then planted on its top ; cxcavation ...
... surrounded at its base by a moat and at its summit by a palisade encircling a wooden tower . Archaeologists and hist- orians alike assumed that the mound of earth was thrown up first and the tower then planted on its top ; cxcavation ...
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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