The Archaeology of Wigford and the Brayford Pool - Hardcover

Darling, Margaret; Mann, Jenny E; Steane, Kate; Vince, Alan G.; Vince, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184217021X ISBN 13: 9781842170212

Publisher: Oxbow Books, 2000

Synopsis

The suburb of Wigford lies near the heart of the historic city of Lincoln. Before excavations began in 1972, nothing was known of the prehistory of the area and so the arrival of the Roman army represented the first historic event. This volume publishes the results of the excavation of several sites, made possible by a series of urban development schemes. Each of the excavations differed in the extent and depth of the stratigraphy uncovered and each belonged to a different period, from the Iron Age to post-medieval.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements, by M J Jones
Summaries: English, French, German
1 Introduction by K Steane
THE EXCAVATIONS
2 Chaplin Street (cs73)
3 Monson Street (m82)
4 St Mary's Guildhall (smg82)
5 Brayford Wharf East (bwe82)
6 Brayford Wharf North (bwn75)
7 Diicinson's Mill (dm72)
8 Holmes Grainwarehouse: 181-3 High Street (hg72)
9 Lucy Tower Street (lt72)
10 St Benedict's Square (sb85)
11 Waterside South (ws82)
12 St Mark's Station (z86)
13 St Mark's Church (sm76)
14 St Mark's East (ze87)
15 Discussion by A Vince and K Steane with contributions by M Darling and J Young
16 Suggestions for further work by A Vince
APPENDICES
I: The Archiving and Analysis Projects, by A Vince and K Steane
II: Roman pottery codes
III: Post Roman pottery codes
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

About this title

About the Author:

by Kate Steane, with Margeret J Darling, Jenny Mann, Alan Vince, and Jane Young

Review:

This volume provides good evidence from the outer part of a major town in the Roman and medieval periods. Much of the key data from here can be absorbed into period and site type syntheses and the best examples (the St Marks church sequence) and good data from contentious periods (final phase Roman and dark earth) may surface in teaching notes and undergraduate essays. Those actively researching and excavating Lincoln will find this invaluable, whilst those of us researching urban forms and functions will welcome, note, absorb and occasionally utilize.' (Paul Spoerry Antiquity, Vol. 76, 2002)

It is a useful synthesis of reports on many early excavations in an important part of the City of Lincoln;' (Mark Redknap Post-Medieval Archaeology, 2003)

Clearly it is intended to be a definitive publication for researchers and it is certainly the key to the archive, from which any future non-excavational research is likely to be derived and from which some useful prediction of ground conditions on future sites can be made, for planning purposes. As such it needed to be done, and certainly represents value for money.' (Andrew White Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2001)

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxbow Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 184217021X
• ISBN 13: 9781842170212
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 370