Excavations in the West Bailey at Corfe Castle

A DATA BASE containing all the information available to the authors on Anglo-Saxon structures has been devised and installed on a computer. A preliminary analysis of the data concentrating on the dimensions of the buildings has revealed some significant trends in their lengths, widths and proportions. These trends are interpreted within what is known of the social and economic context of the period. In addition, a method of comparing the complete set of buildings on a site has been developed. It can be used, for example, to find sites with similar sets of buildings which may, therefore, also share other characteristics.