EXCAVATIONS IN MEDIEVAL SOUTHAMPTON 1953-1969 (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Colin Platt, R. Coleman-Smith
Published by Leicester University Press
in 1975
ISBN: 0718511239
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- SOUTH WEST UK
- HAMPSHIRE
- ARCHAEOLOGY
- GEOLOGY
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (MEDIEVAL)
EXCAVATIONS IN MEDIEVAL SOUTHAMPTON 1953-1969 (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Colin Platt, R. Coleman-Smith.
Stock no. 1827710
1st.
1975.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Volume 1: The Excavation Reports. Volume 2: The Finds. Large volume. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine, vignette to front. B/w illustrations. Contained in slipcase. ISBN: 0718511239. Lower front corner of board of volume 1 is bumped. Else a lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which is scuffed at base and knocked to top rear spine edge.
Front cover
Contents
- VOLUME 1 THE EXCAVATIN REPORTS
- Preface
- List of figures
- List of plates
- List of abbreviations
- PART I
- Introduction by Colin Platt
- Chronological table, A.D. 1000-1600
- Surface geology of the site of medieval Southampton by F. Hodson
- The surviving medieval buildings by Pl A. Faulkner
- A. Gatehouses
- B. Commercial buildings
- C. Medieval house and undercrofts
- PART II
- The excavations, 1953-1955 by M. R. Maitland Muller, with D. M. Waterman
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- The excavations
- Site 1, Upper Bugle Street
- Site 2, the castle-mound ditch
- Site 3, Albion Place
- Site 4, Lansdowne Hill
- Site 5, High Street 1
- Site 6, High Street 2
- Site 7, East Street
- Site 8, West Street
- Site 9, Gloucester Square
- Site 10k The Star Hotel
- Site 11, Zion Chapel
- PART III
- The excavations, 1956-1958 by J. S. Wacher
- Introduction
- Prehistoric settlement
- The town defences
- Buildings and other structures
- Site A, Vyse Lane
- Site B, Bargate Street
- Site E, Brewhouse Lane
- The pits
- PART IV
- The excavations, 1959-1961 by F. A. Aberg
- Acknowledgements
- The castle
- Site 1, the castle mound
- Site 2, the bailey defences, Albion Place
- Spa Road
- West Street
- 184 French Street
- 5 Cuckoo Lane
- Quilter's Vault
- The Wool House
- Gloucester Sq2uare
- Canute's Palace
- Building sites
- High Street, 1960
- Brewhouse Lane, 1960
- St Michael's Square, 1961
- George's Restaurant, French Street, 1961
- Midland Bank, Albion Place, 1961
- 10-12 Bugle Street, 1961
- National Provincial Bank, High Steet, 1961
- PART V
- The excavations, 1966-1969 by Colin Platt
- High Street
- Winkle Street
- Cuckoo Lane
- Bugle Hall
- Gloucester Square
- 49 Bugle Street
- PART VI
- Analyses of samples
- The animal bones by Barbara Noddle
- The bird bones by D. Bramwell
- The fish bones by Alwyne Wheeler
- The animal bones from J. S. Wacher's excavations by Juliet Clutton-Brock
- The molluscan remains by F. R. Woodward
- The seeds by G. W. Dimbleby
- Parasite eggs by A. W. Pike
- Pollen analysis (pit 101, High Street B) by K. E. Barber
- Smithy floor (feature 172, High Street C) by P. J. Ovenden
- Index to published finds
- VOLUME 2 THE FINDS
- List of figures
- List of plates
- Bibliography
- THE POTTERY
- Introduction by Colin Platt and Richard Coleman-Smith, with J. G. Hurst
- The pit groups
- The grass-marked sherd by D. P. S. Peacock
- Some local and imported wares from Southampton by G. C. Dunning
- The Southampton ceramics in contemporary paintings by Richard Coleman-Smith
- Blackened medieval polychrome pottery, cleaned by heat treatment by Richard Coleman-Smith and Henry Hodges
- Catalogue
- English wares
- French wares
- German, Flemish and Dutch wares
- Spanish wares
- Italian wares
- Mediterranean and other wares
- THE TILES
- Roof-fittings by G.C. Dunning
- Catalogue
- Roof-tiles and fittings
- Floor - and hearth - tiles
- THE GLASS
- Introduction by R. J. Charleston
- Catalogue
- THE WOOD
- Catalogue (identifications by J. D. Brazier)
- THE SMAILL FINDS
- The ampullae from Cuckoo Lane by Brian Spencer
- The pewter saucer by Ronald F. Michaelis
- The coin-weight by Michael Dolley
- The bone pipe by J. V. S. Megaw
- Catalogue by Yvonne Harvey, with contributions by Ian Goodall and Leo Bick
- The bronze
- Other metals
- The bone
- Bone and miscellaneous objects
- The iron
- THE LEATHER
- Catalogue
- THE STONE
- Catalogue (identifications by I. M. West and F. W. Anderson; interpretation by P. A. Faulkner)
- THE COINS AND JETTONS
- by Michael Dolley
- Catalogue
- The Roman coins
- The English coins
- The Anglo-Irish coin
- The Continental coins
- The uncertain coins
- The jettons
- The coins from J. S. Wacher's excavations by S. E. Rigold
- THE TEXTILES
- by Elisabeth Crowfoot
- Catalogue
- Textiles
- Rope and string
- The Southampton Wools by M. L. Ryder and J. V. Hedges
- THE BASKETS
- by Dorothy Wright
- THE CLAY TOBACCO-PIPES
- by D. R. Atkinson
- Catalogue
- GENERAL INDEX