Historic Properties

North

A wide range of work utilising a variety of different archaeological techniques was carried out on northern properties during 1994-95. At Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire, the long term programme of building recording has continued. Work has been completed for the south and north aisle walls of the Presbytery and North Transept Chapel, and fieldwork has also been carried out to enhance the photogrammetric plots which have now been converted to digital files. Survey at St Mary's Church, Studely Royal , North Yorkshire, is a good example of multi-disciplinary team work. The survey itself combines hand survey, photogrammetry, rectified photography, and use of a reflectorless EDM which is used to create a three dimensional framework of the chancel on which the photogrammetric plots will be `hung'. Fine Arts and Painting conservators are recording and assessing the internal detail of the structure, and survey work will be extended to other parts of the church in future years.

At Jervaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire, survey work has continued on the Lay Brother's Reredorter, and consolidation work here has required excavation of the silts in the reredorter drain. At Egglestone Abbey, County Durham, standing building recording in advance of consolidation works of the Monks' Dormitory range has revealed considerable evidence of post-medieval and early modern occupation. Surviving detail of Anglo-Saxon carving has been added to base photogrammetric survey of the Sandbach Crosses, Cheshire, and the same technique has been employed at Lanercost Priory, Cumbria.

Sandbach Crosses, Cheshire: recorded detail -
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The enhanced survey of Berwick Bell Tower is being converted to digital format, and the enhancement of the rectified photography survey of Hadrian's Wall has continued, concentrated at Housesteads. Post-excavation work is continuing for Wharram Percy, North Yorkshire, St Peter's Church, Barton-on-Humber, Humberside, Warton Old Rectory, Lancashire, and Furness Abbey, Cumbria.