The Structure of the Timber Kitchen at Weoley Castle,Birmingham

A CEMETERY uncovered during roadworks at High Wycombe in ig86 confirmed the location of the medieval hospital of St Margaret. Examination of the skeletal remains suggests that several of the individuals excavated had suffered from leprosy.     

Hill Pits,Blaenavon

Abstract

The Hill Pits presents to the Industrial Archaeologist a number of interesting items for study and speculation. Not only are there the remains of the pits themselves, but also the major part of the system of communications that linked the workings with the Blaenavon Ironworks, now in the care of the Secretary of State for Wales. This system of communications comprises a tramroad and inclined plane with the remains of a brake engine at the head of the latter.

This paper is the result of field work conducted under the auspices of the Department of Extra-Mural Studies, University College, Cardiff by the Blaenavon Class in Industrial Archaeology.     

河北平泉一带发现的石城聚落遗址——兼论夏家店下层文化的城堡带问题

本文对平泉茅兰沟一带发现的石围墙、石城遗址作了重点介绍,并以此作为切入点,对我国北方夏家店下层文化的石围墙、石城聚落遗址进行了全面的分析,认为夏家店下层文化的石围墙、石城构成的“城堡带”,集中在内蒙古的赤峰、辽宁的朝阳、河北的承德一带,分布直径在400公里左右,可能是当时“古国”的所在。     

Sheffield Castle and The Aftermath of The English Civil War

The demolition of castles following the English Civil War is often seen as an inevitable consequence of the conflict, with their slighting often being ascribed to a need to prevent further bloodshed and punish the ruling elite. However, recent studies have demonstrated that the destruction of elite buildings during this period was far from straightforward, and this complexity is reflected in the methodology employed to damage them. At Sheffield, so extensive was this damage that, less than a century later, not a trace remained of what had once been one of the largest castles in South Yorkshire. Whilst little remains of the building itself, the rare survival of a set of demolition accounts, alongside a large number of other sources including personal correspondence, estate rentals and town records, means it is possible to explore in great detail the circumstances of the castle’s slighting. Through these a far more nuanced picture of civil conflict emerges with the castle’s destruction taking place within a complicated dialogue between the Lord of the Manor, Parliament’s officials and the inhabitants of Sheffield themselves.     

The Chantry Priests' House at Farleigh Hungerford Castle

THE REPAIR and consolidation of the house built in 1430 by Sir Walter de Hungerford for the priests serving the chantries founded for his father and later himself at Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Somerset, provided an opportunity for detailed examination of the fabric and a re-interpretation of its internal arrangements. This examination was combined with limited excavation inside as well as outside the building, which produced groups of pottery earlier than and also contemporary with the construction of the house in 1430.     

Recent Excavations in the Keep of Farnham Castle,Surrey

Abstract

Several alternative schemes for the dating if Pictish relief sculpture have been advanced during the last century. Representations if artifacts which can be dated archaeologically, decorative devices associated with the Viking Period and details if animal ornament are used to provide new date-ranges for some stones usually dated earlier. The early dating often advanced for some low-relief sculptures is accordingly questioned, and a tentative scheme for the dating if Pictish relief sculpture proposed.