Research Catalog

Title

Medieval to modern suburban material culture and sequence at Grand Arcade, Cambridge : archaeological investigations of an eleventh- to twentieth-century suburb and town ditch / [edited] by Craig Cessford and Alison Dickens ; with contributions by Martin Allen [and 21 others] ; with a foreword by Martin Biddle ; graphics by Vicki Herring with Andrew Hall ; principal photography by Craig Cessford and Dave Webb.

Publication

Cambridge, UK : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, [2019]

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Additional Authors

• Cessford, Craig
• Dickens, Alison
• Biddle, Martin
• Herring, Vicki
• Webb, Dave (Photographer)

Description

xxi, 474 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 29 cm.

Series Statement

• Cambridge Archaeological Unit urban archaeology series. The Archaeology of Cambridge ; volume 1
• McDonald Institute monographs

Uniform Title

• Cambridge Archaeological Unit urban archaeology series. Archaeology of Cambridge ; v. 1.
• McDonald Institute monographs

Subject

• Excavations (Archaeology) > England > Cambridge
• Suburbs > England > Cambridge > History
• Antiquities
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• Suburbs
• Cambridge (England) > Antiquities
• England > Cambridge

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-467) and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction / A. Dickens -- Circumstances and background -- Previous archaeological investigations -- Grand Arcade and related developments -- Structure and organization -- Inset: Some doorways and windows to the past -- Site sequence -- Starting at the end -- ch. 2 Preludes: prehistoric to early twelfth century / C. Cessford -- Space not place -- Prehistoric-mid-eleventh century -- Mid/late eleventh century -- Early twelfth century -- Discussion -- ch. 3 The Kings Ditch: from Anarchy to alleyway / C. Cessford -- Previous investigations -- Circumambulating the King's Ditch -- The King's Ditch sequence -- Early/mid-twelfth century -- Late twelfth-mid-fifteenth century -- Inset: Bridging the divide -- Late fifteenth-late seventeenth century -- Late eighteenth-early twenty-first century -- Discussion -- ch. 4 The early suburb: mid-twelfth to sixteenth century / C. Cessford -- Mid-late twelfth century -- Archaeological remains -- Wells -- Case study 1 Well 5 -- Cesspits -- Buildings -- Gullies -- Pits -- Case study 2 Pit 5 -- Garden soil -- Thirteenth-fourteenth centuries -- The documented plots / C. Cessford -- Archaeological remains -- Wells -- Case study 3 Well 32 -- Cesspits -- Buildings -- Gullies -- Water-filled-features -- Case study 4 Water filled features 3 -- 5 -- Ovens -- Animal disposal pits -- Specialized pits -- Surfaces -- Pits -- Fifteenth-sixteenth centuries -- The documented plots / C. Cessford -- Archaeological remains -- Wells -- Case study 5 Well 38 -- Cesspits -- Buildings -- Water-filled features -- Case Study 6 Water-filled feature 11 -- Ovens -- Animal disposal pits -- Specialised pits -- Surfaces -- Pits -- Material culture -- Jettons / M. Allen -- Metalwork and metalworking / S. Timberlake -- Worked stone / C. Cessford -- Pottery / C. Cessford -- Ceramic building material / A. Vince -- Worked bone / L. Higbee -- Stone mouldings / K. Hayward -- Wood and timber / I. Tyers -- Leatherwork / Q. Mould -- Miscellaneous materials / C. Cessford -- Economic and environmental data -- Mammal and bird bone / L. Higbee -- Fish bone / J. Harland -- Plant macrofossils / A. de Vareilles -- Insects / D. Smith -- Pollen / S. Boreham -- Discussion -- Mid-late twelfth century -- Thirteenth-fourteenth centuries -- Fifteenth-sixteenth centuries -- ch. 5 From suburb to shopping centre: seventeenth to twenty-first century / A. Dickens -- Seventeenth century -- Plot IX -- Plot X/Plot XI -- Case study 7 Cesspit 16 -- Plot XII -- Plot XIII -- Plots XIV -- XIX -- Case study 8 Well 42 -- Plot XXII -- Eighteenth century -- Plots I -- VII -- Plot VIII -- Plot IX -- Plot X(incorporating Plot XI -- Plot XII -- Plot XIII -- Plot XIV -- Case study 9 Pit 57 -- Plot XV -- Plot XVI -- Plot XVII -- Plot XVIII -- Plots XIX -- XXI -- Case study 10 Well 46 -- Plot XXII -- Nineteenth century -- Plots I -- VII -- Plot VIII -- Plot IX -- Plot X -- Plot XII -- Plot XIII -- Case study 11 Well 52 -- Plot XIV -- Plot XV -- Case study 12 The backfilling of Soakaway 3 -- Plot XVI -- Plot XVII -- Plot XVIII -- Plot XIX -- Plot XX -- Plot XXII -- Twentieth century -- Plot X -- Plot XIII -- Plot XIV -- Plot XX -- The Robert Sayle department store -- Nineteenth century -- Twentieth century -- Inset: Living above the shop and other stories -- Discussion -- Material culture -- Coins and jettons / M. Allen -- Metalwork / A. Hall -- Worked stone / C. Cessford -- Vessel glass / V. Herring -- Pottery / D. Hall -- Clay tobacco pipes / A. Vince -- Ceramic building material / A. Vince -- Wood and timber / S. Allen -- Leatherwork / Q. Mould -- Economic and environmental data -- Mammal and bird bone / L. Higbee -- Fish bone / J. Harland -- Discussion -- Seventeenth century -- Eighteenth century -- Nineteenth century -- Twentieth century -- ch. 6 Wider environs / R. Newman -- The Barnwell Gate suburb -- St Andrew the Great -- South of Downing Street -- Christ's College -- The Christ's Lane development -- Emmanuel College -- Inset: Reading names and signs at No. 21 / C. Cessford -- Discussion -- The agricultural hinterland -- One suburb among many -- Discussion -- ch. 7 Coda / C. Cessford -- Temporality and biography -- Suburban archaeology -- Inset: Peripheral biographies -- Property tail archaeology -- A millennium of change -- Age, gender and more esoteric agencies -- The archaeology of modernity -- The local and the global -- Town versus gown -- Odd deposits and average practice -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9781902937786
• 1902937783

LCCN

2019452811

OCLC

• on1121103941
• 1121103941
• SCSB-9670917

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library