Berkshire
Vince, A, Lobb, S, Richards, J, and Mepham, L, 1997 Excavations in Newbury, Berkshire, 1979 90. Wessex Archaeol Rep, 13
The results of a series of excavations, evaluations, and watching briefs carried out between 1979 and 1990 as a response to redevelopment in the centre of Newbury with the broad objective of determining the origins and development of medieval settlement in the historic town centre.
Bristol
Price, R, and Ponsford, M, 1998 St Bartholomew's Hospital, Bristol: the excavation of a medieval hospital, 1976-8. CBA Res Rep, 110
Excavations carried out between 1976 and 1978 on the site of St Bartholomew's Hospital, located on the banks of the River Frome alongside the principal northern entrance to Bristol are described. The site had been occupied since late Saxon times and remained a hospital until shortly before the Dissolution in 1532. A comparative study of the medieval hospitals of Bristol has shown that even by local standards St Bartholomew's was impoverished and built on a small scale, as economically as possible.
Cambridgeshire
Oakey, N, and Spoerry, P, 1996 Excavations at Orchard Lane, Huntingdon, 1994, Proc Cambridge Antiq Soc, 85, 123-58
Excavations in 1994 revealed rubbish and cess pits dating from AD 900 1150, and information was obtained on the diet of the Saxo-Norman population. Probably in the eleventh century, the site became a cemetery and remains of over 20 individuals were excavated. Burials had ceased by the fifteenth century and, apart from a quarrying episode in the sixteenth or seventeenth century, the property then remained open or was used as a builders' yard.
East Sussex
Gardiner, M, Russell, M, and Gregory, D, 1996 Excavations at Lewes Friary 1986-6 and 1988 9, Sussex Archaeol Coll, 134, 71-123
Excavations on site of the Franciscan friary at Lewes identified eight periods of activity. The earliest deposit was a surface of flint gravel interpreted as a hard for beaching ships. During the twelfth century it was covered with alluvium and dumped rubbish. The Grey Friars was founded before 1241 and the earliest buildings were constructed on the built-up surface of the floodplain. Evidence was found suggesting that conditions here were very damp. Partial rebuilding took place on the south side of the cloisters raising the floor levels. In Period 4 a major rebuilding took place with the reconstruction of all structures and the ground level was raised by dumping chalk rubble. Minor modifications were made to the friary buildings in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, many of which can be associated with improved standards of comfort. The friary was dissolved in 1538 and the church and other buildings demolished. Some buildings, including the chapter house, were retained, though in an altered from. In the late seventeenth century these too were demolished and the house called The Friars was constructed on the site. Fifty-five medieval burials were recovered, the majority of which were adult males. Lyne, M, with 14 contributors, 1997 Lewes Priory, excavations by Richard Lewis, 1969 82, Lewes Priory Trust Excavations between 1969 and 1982 revealed evidence for Saxon occupation pre-dating the Priory, which might have been monastic in character. Also new evidence obtained about the eleventh- and twelfth-century structures, the reredorters of the former possibly the first such buildings constructed to medieval design in England after the Norman Conquest.
Gloucestershire
Hannan, A, with 17 contributors, 1997 Tewkesbury and the Earls of Gloucester: excavations at Holm Hill, 1974-75, Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc, 115, 79-231
In the Anglo-Norman period Tewkesbury became an important centre of the extensive interests of the Earls of Gloucester. Documentary and archaeological evidence is used to show that the Earls maintained a residence on Holm Hill in buildings of aristocratic proportions with a high-status material culture in which the military and equestrian featured prominently. The report also proposes that Tewkesbury, with its origins in prehistoric and Roman times, grew rapidly under the patronage of the Earldom, the granting of a market and the founding of an abbey being early events in the development of the medieval town.
London
Mills, P, 1995 Excavations at the dorter undercroft, Westminster Abbey, Trans London Middlesex Archaeol Soc, 46, 69-124
Excavations at the dorter undercroft of Westminster Abbey revealed evidence of extensive mid eleventh-century flooding. In the latter part of the eleventh century a road was built and a possible precinct ditch was dug, to be followed soon afterwards by a substantial wooden structure, probably a building. Some details of the present undercroft (built late 1060s early 1070s) were recorded, together with evidence for late twelfth-century and early sixteenth-century uses of the building.
Thomas, T, Sloane, B, and Philpotts, C, 1997 Excavations at the Priory and Hospital of St Mary Spital, London, MoLAS Monograph, 1
Nine excavations and watching briefs have produced evidence for the development of the church, infirmary, reredorter, cemeteries, and gardens of the Augustinian priory and lying-in hospital for the sick poor, founded in 1197. Many of the monastic buildings were converted to domestic use following the Dissolution of the monasteries, and the monastic topography is still visible in the modern street pattern. The report includes thematic discussions of topics such as care of the sick and standards of hygiene.
Surrey
Hayman, G, 1997 The excavation of two medieval pottery kiln sites and two sections through the London Lewes Roman road at Clackett Lane, near Titsey, 1992, Surrey Archaeol Collect, 84, 1-87
Archaeological work near Clackett Lane led to the discovery of two medieval sites that were subsequently excavated to reveal two pottery kilns and various contemporary features. Sites producing pottery known as Limpsfield Ware have previously been discovered in this area and these most recent findings belong to this group. The work led to the recovery of large quantities of mid thirteenth- to fourteenth-century coarseware and the detailed examination of this material has enabled a comprehensive report to be written. In addition features that predate the pottery production were found on the southern site and some of these are believed to be of prehistoric date. Two sections through the London Lewes Roman road were also excavated.
Wiltshire
(see R Smith in the Anglian section)
Yorkshire
Whyman, M, 1997 Excavations in Deanery Gardens and Low St Agnesgate, Ripon, N. Yorkshire, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 69, 119-63
Excavations in 1974 at Low St Agnesgate and in 1977-78 in the Deanery Gardens revealed significant evidence of settlement in this part of Ripon from the eleventh century onwards. The surviving archives from Low St Agnesgate provide evidence of the topography of medieval Ripon and its monastic institution. The pottery from the Deanery Gardens provides a useful ceramic assemblage of the eleventh to thirteenth/fourteenth centuries.
(see also M Parker-Pearson in the Prehistoric section)