Research Catalog

Title

Waterfront archaeology : proceedings of the Third International Conference on Waterfront Archaeology held at Bristol 23-26 September 1988 / edited by G.L. Good, R.H. Jones and M.W. Ponsford.

Author

International Conference on Waterfront Archaeology (3rd : 1988 : Bristol, England).

Publication

London : Council for British Archaeology, 1991.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Good, G. L.
• Jones, R. H.
• Ponsford, M. W.
• Council for British Archaeology

Description

xii, 201 p. : ill., maps, plans; 30 cm.

Series Statement

CBA research report ; no. 74

Uniform Title

Research report (Council for British Archaeology) no. 74.

Subject

• Coastal archaeology > England > Congresses
• Coastal archaeology > Norway > Congresses
• Underwater archaeology > England > Congresses
• Underwater archaeology > Norway > Congresses
• Great Britain > Antiquities > Congresses
• Norway > Antiquities > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-190) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From the cloth to creel -- riverside industries in Norwich -- Industry and economics on the medieval and later London waterfront -- Industry and environment in medieval Bristol -- Aspects of the recent development of the port of Bristol -- Newcastle upon Tyne and its North Sea trade -- Medieval Hartlepool: evidence of and from the waterfront -- Poole: the medieval waterfront and its usage -- The post-medieval harbour, Tay Street, Perth -- Hythes and bows: aspects of river transport in Somerset -- Aspects of sea-level changes, fishing, and fish processing in Tonsberg in the Middle Ages -- Primitive British fishweirs -- The archaeology of medieval fishing tackle -- Late Saxon and Conquest-period oyster middens at Poole, Dorset -- New light on early ship- and boatbuilding in the London area -- Waterfront archaeology and vernacular architecture: a London study -- Conservation of waterlogged wood: a review -- The development of Exeter Quay 1564-1701 -- The medieval bridge and waterfront at Kingston-upon-Thames -- Vagen and Bergen: the changing waterfront and the structure of the medieval town -- Some methodological aspects of the excavations at Finnegarden 3a in Bergen -- Lincoln's ancient docklands: the search continues -- The waterfronts of York.

ISBN

1872414052

OCLC

• 27222284
• SCSB-10420017

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library