Sheffield Excavation Reports – serie

Report of excavations in an area immediately north-east of Beverley Minster, and bounded by the Dominican Priory. Its two-fold aims were to investigate the limits of the pre-Conquest settlement, and to examine the emergence of the Medieval street plan in this part of the town. Excavation revealed that the site overlay a natural pond which was only gradually filled. Subsequently the area saw continuous use for textile production and dyeing from as early as the late-eleventh century to the mid- to late-fourteenth century.

This volume presents reports from a series of disparate excavation and fieldwork projects undertaken in and around Ilchester, Somerset, between 1964 and 1984. The main body of the report consists of a series of chapters documenting each recorded episode of fieldwork within a framework provided by four principal themes: Urban Defences; Town and Suburb; Cemeteries; the Hinterland. These are supplemented by a review of cultural and environmental evidence, placing Ilchester's archaeology in a diachronic and thematic structure from prehistory to the middle ages.