Post-Medieval

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1. vowen2 says:

   November 20, 2018 at 6:52 pm

   Organisation
   Trent & Peak Archaeology
   Site/Project Name
   Lenton Priory
   Parish
   Lenton
   County/Unitary Authority
   Nottingham City
   NGR
   SK 55151 38755
   HER No
   Awaiting deposition
   OASIS ID
   Trentpea1-204664(3)
   Museum No
   To be finalised
   Report and Web Link
   The Lenton Priory Project. A Report on a Community Excavation
   Agenda Topic(s)

   8.6.1 What was the impact of the Reformation upon ecclesiastical buildings and monastic estates?
   Research Objective(s)

   8G Study the post-Dissolution re-use of monastic structures and the continuity of monastic estates
   How has this work addressed the Research Agenda and Strategy?

   The excavation of Trench 3 identified the remains of the early 12th century conventual church of Lenton Priory. A post-Dissolution re-use phase was identified which utilised the northern aisle of the church. It is unclear what function this building played, but the relatively delicate mortar surface is indicative of a domestic function rather than a purpose such as livestock corralling or crop storage.

   It is believed that stonework from the monastic estate was quarried for large-scale building projects around Nottinghamshire from 1538 onwards and that the priory buildings were soon demolished. This does not fit with the excavated evidence, which demonstrates re-use of some of the monastic buildings in the post-Dissolution period.

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2. vowen2 says:

   November 20, 2018 at 6:52 pm

   Organisation
   Trent & Peak Archaeology
   Site/Project Name
   We Dig the Castle
   County/Unitary Authority
   Nottingham City
   NGR
   SK 56985 39485
   Report and Web Link
   http://tparchaeology.co.uk/wedigthecastle.htm
   Agenda Topic(s)

   8.2.3 What horticultural methods, planting schemes and water management methods were employed by garden planners?
   8.2.2 How were garden designs influenced by changing fashions and by a familiarity with Continental garden styles?
   Research Objective(s)

   8D Investigate developments in estate and garden design and their landscape context
   How has this work addressed the Research Agenda and Strategy?

   For the last three years Trent & Peak Archaeology has conducted a community training dig within the Outer Bailey of Nottingham Castle, under a project entitled ‘We Dig the Castle’. These excavations have begun to elaborate the layout of the formal gardens of the 17th century Ducal Palace and how this layout evolved into a more informal parkland arrangement in the 18th century, which was in line with the fashions of the time. Features identified may also indicate the presence of a kitchen garden within the excavation area during the Post-Medieval period.

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3. vowen2 says:

   November 20, 2018 at 6:52 pm

   Organisation
   MOLA Northampton
   Site/Project Name
   Project Angel
   Parish
   All Saints
   County/Unitary Authority
   Northamptonshire
   NGR
   SP 75501 60264
   HER No
   ENN107673
   OASIS ID
   molanort1-308684
   Agenda Topic(s)

   8.1.2 How were towns organised and planned, and how did population growth impact upon their internal spatial organisation?
   8.1.4 What can studies of environmental data, artefacts and structural remains tell us about variations in diet, living conditions and status?
   8.8.2 Can we establish a dated type series for ceramics (building in particular upon unpublished urban pit and well groups)?
   Research Objective(s)

   8I Develop further the study of ceramic assemblages
   How has this work addressed the Research Agenda and Strategy?

   The project is currently at Updated Project Design stage, and is a work in progress.

   The site lies in the Norman “New Borough” of Northampton and was preceded by significant medieval occupation, malting and baking, followed by clearance and abandonment. A single late medieval stone tenement survived on St Johns Street that was extended and refurbished in the late 15th century. The building had three clay-floored rooms, a kitchen range with bread oven and hearths, and a yard with outhouse and wells. The house lay within an area of otherwise abandoned space, until the 18th-century.

   Another building was established on Fetter Street after c1450, which was the first archaeological indication for this street￢ﾀﾙs existence. The Fetter Street tenement had a relatively short duration and pottery in the abandonment and demolition levels suggested that it ceased to exist by c1550.

   The period of the 17th￢ﾀﾓ18th centuries was marked by dark loamy soils associated with gardens and orchards, until the construction of stables and terraced buildings, and the historically recorded developments thereafter. Much of this is likely to reflect late post-medieval town planning and economic expansion.

   Further investigation of the shellfish and animal bone will provide more in-depth analysis of the early post-medieval assemblages. It will contribute to the study of diet, craft/industrial resource exploitation, social/economic status and site conditions through waste disposal.

   The existing Northamptonshire Ceramic Type Series (CTS) forms the basis for all pottery coding. All of the pottery has been coded to the CTS for the present report. Previously unknown or unidentified ceramics are continually added to the CTS and published on a site by site basis until such a time as funding is available to collate these additions.

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4. Richard Gregory says:

   November 3, 2020 at 8:26 am

   Organisation
   Oxford Archaeology North
   Site/Project Name
   Sadler Bridge Studios
   County/Unitary Authority
   Derby/Derby City Council
   NGR
   NGR SK 3510 3640
   HER No
   Awaiting deposition
   Museum No
   DBYMU 2012-285
   Report and Web Link
   Sadler Bridge Studios, Bold Lane, Derby: archaeological archive report (https://library.oxfordarchaeology.com/5844)
   Agenda Topics
   8.1.2 How were towns organised and planned, and how did population growth impact upon their internal spatial organisation?
   8.5.5 What may be learned of the material culture of industrial workers?
   8.8.2 Can we establish a dated type series for ceramics (building in particular upon unpublished urban pit and well groups)?
   How has this work addressed the Research Agenda and Strategy?
   An important archaeological dataset was recovered during an archaeological evaluation and excavation at Sadler Bridge Studios, Derby, respectively completed in 2009 and 2013 by OA North, prior to redevelopment. Some of the data related to post-medieval urban activity occurring in the rear portions of two medieval burgage plots extending from Sadler Gate, one of Derby’s important medieval and post-medieval thoroughfares. The excavated post-medieval remains relate to activity involving small-scale industry, including the manufacture of clay tobacco pipes, and the establishment of brick-built properties along the street frontage. Hence, the archaeological data provide details on the organisation of the post-medieval town and its early nineteenth-century clay tobacco-pipe industry.

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