Research Catalog

Title

Medieval industrial complex and its landscape : the metalworking watermills and workshops of Bordesley Abbey / G.G. Astill ; with contributions by S.J. Allen ... [et al.].

Author

Astill, Grenville G.

Publication

York : Council for British Archeology, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

Allen, S. J. (Steven J.)

Description

xix, 317 p. : ill., maps; 30 cm.

Series Statement

CBA research report ; 92

Uniform Title

Research report (Council for British Archaeology) no. 92.

Subject

• Bordesley Abbey (Redditch, England)
• To 1500
• Excavations (Archaeology) > England > Redditch
• Metalworking industries > England > Redditch
• Water mills > England > Redditch
• Abbeys > England > Redditch
• Civilization, Medieval
• Redditch (England) > Antiquities

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Accompanied by 2 supplementary microfiches in pocket.
• "Bordesley Abbey III."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-311) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Excavations and fieldwork 1980-1991 -- Circumstances and methods of excavation -- The stratigraphy, report structure, and interpretation -- Summary of chronology -- The mill (BAB) stratigraphic sequence -- The mill (BAB) structural timber sequence -- The valley transect (BAE) stratigraphic sequence, by period -- Subsidiary excavations through the tail race (BAH and BAJ) -- The medieval and post-medieval landscape of the east part of the precinct: a new survey and interpretation -- The finds: Stone -- Flint -- Fuels -- Baked clay -- Fired clay -- Clay tobacco pipes -- Ceramic roof tiles and fittings -- Pottery -- Glass -- Iron -- Metallographic examination of iron knives and other objects -- Copper alloy -- Other metal: lead and silver -- The nature and condition of the metalwork -- Coins and jetton -- Metalworking residues -- The valley environment: the evidence of the plant remains -- Molluscan analysis -- Worked wood -- Animal bone -- Worked bone -- Leather -- Dendrochronological analysis -- Medieval technologies: water-power and industries at Bordesley Abbey: The working of the Bordesley mills: the water supply, the mills, and their machinery -- Metalworking at Bordesley and elsewhere: a review of the evidence -- Other industries within the precinct -- The supply of resources, the monastic economy, and the Arrow valley -- Conclusion: the medieval landscape and the identification of industries -- an ongoing agenda.

ISBN

1872414435

LCCN

^^^95109373^//r962

OCLC

• 33165157
• SCSB-10239095

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library