The Archaeology of Medieval EnglandBritish Museum Publications, 1984 - 224 pages |
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Page 112
... Tower of London is the castle at Colchester , Essex , a sturdy stone tower resting squarely on reused Roman foundations , which was built at the same time as the Tower of London , presumably to guard the eastern approaches to the City ...
... Tower of London is the castle at Colchester , Essex , a sturdy stone tower resting squarely on reused Roman foundations , which was built at the same time as the Tower of London , presumably to guard the eastern approaches to the City ...
Page 124
... 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 has shown that that method of construction was but one of a multiplicity of different ...
... 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 has shown that that method of construction was but one of a multiplicity of different ...
Page 125
... tower . The motte is shown with horizontal strata and apparently covered by a layer of some different substance . of the tower . When it was complete the castle of South Mimms must have looked like a great timber tower surrounded by a ...
... tower . The motte is shown with horizontal strata and apparently covered by a layer of some different substance . of the tower . When it was complete the castle of South Mimms must have looked like a great timber tower surrounded by 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