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Book Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society for 1995

Download or read book Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society for 1995 written by Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions   Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society

Download or read book Transactions Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society written by Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions of the Bristol   Gloucestershire Archaeological Society for 1894 95

Download or read book Transactions of the Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeological Society for 1894 95 written by Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society for 1894 95  Vol  19  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society for 1894 95 Vol 19 Classic Reprint written by C. S. Taylor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society for 1894-95, Vol. 19 The Annual General Meeting of the Society was held at Ledbury on the days above mentioned. This is the second time within the last three years that members of the Society have Visited Ledbury and its neighbourhood. A large and influential local committee were nominated to receive the Society; Mr. M. Biddulph, mp5 being appointed Chairmari. Mr. Spencer H. Bickham and. Mr; George H.' Piper kindly acted as lecal secretaries, but owing to the serious illness of Mrs. Bickham - and which has since proved fatal - the for mer gentleman was unable to be present, and the duties were kindly carried out by Mr. Jesse Garrood. M - r. Bickham was also local treasurer. The company first assembled in the ancient Townhall to hold the Annual Meeting of the Society, and during the progress of the business the cries o__f the market hucksters underneath were plainly heard. Among those present at the introductory meeting were' the Revs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Gloucestershire

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  • Author : David Verey
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2002-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300097337
  • Pages : 964 pages

Download or read book Gloucestershire written by David Verey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and the Forest of Dean and its companion, Gloucestershire I: The Cotswolds, provide a lively and uniquely comprehensive guide to the architecture of Gloucestershire. Alan Brooks's extensively revised and expanded editions of David Verey's original volumes bring together the latest research on a county unusually rich in attractive and interesting buildings. The area covered lies on both sides of the River Severn, rising from flat alluvial lands to the lower slopes of the Cotswold Escarpment on the east and the rough wooded hills of the Forest of Dean on the Welsh border, with its distinctive industrial inheritance. Architecture is generally more varied and unpredictable than in the Cotswolds: stone, timber, brick and stucco all have local strongholds. The Vale is most famous for its two great churches, Gloucester Cathedral and Tewkesbury Abbey, both Norman buildings with brilliantly inventive late medieval modifications. The other major settlement is the spa town of Cheltenham, with its fine parades of Regency terraces. Country houses include Thornbury Castle, greatest of Early Tudor private houses, timber-framed manors such as Preston Court, and the extravagantly Neo-Gothic Toddington; churches range from the enigmatic Anglo-Saxon pair at Deerhurst to Randall Wells's Arts-and-Crafts experiment at Kempley. Amongst the memorable post-war landmarks are the suspension bridges and nuclear power stations on the banks of the Severn, and Aztec West, one of the best British business parks, on the northern fringes of Bristol. Visitors and residents alike will find their understanding and enjoyment of west Gloucestershire transformed by this book.

Book Excavations at Dryslwyn Castle 1980 1995

Download or read book Excavations at Dryslwyn Castle 1980 1995 written by Chris Caple and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Excavations at Dryslwyn between 1980 and 1995 uncovered a masonry castle, founded in the late 1220s by Rhys Gryg for his son Maredudd ap Rhys, the first Lord of Dryslwyn. The first castle was a simple round tower and polygonal walled enclosure, within which were constructed a kitchen, prison and wood-framed, clay-floored great chamber beside a great hall. In the mid 13th century a second ward was added and the great chamber rebuilt in stone. This castle was greatly expanded in the period 1283-87 by Rhys ap Maredudd, the second and final Lord of Dryslwyn, who built an Outer Ward and gatehouse. He also rebuilt much of the Inner Ward, adding an extra storey to the great hall and great chamber, apartments and a chapel. At the end of the 13th century a large three-ward castle stretched along the eastern and southern edge of the hill while the rest of the hilltop was occupied by a settlement defended by a wall and substantial ditch with access through a gatehouse. This castle and its associated settlement were besieged and captured in 1287 by an English royal army of over 11,000 men following damage inflicted by a trebuchet and mining of the walls. Throughout the 14th century the English Crown garrisoned and repaired the castle, supervised by an appointed constable, before it was surrendered to Owain Glyn Dwr in 1403. During the early to mid 15th century the castle was deliberately walled up to deny its use to a potential enemy and it was subsequently looted and demolished. By the late 13th century, the castle had a white rendered and lime-washed appearance, creating a very dramatic and highly visible symbol of lordship. Internally, the lord's and guest apartments had decorative wall paintings and glazed windows. Evidence from charred beams still in situ, the sizes, shapes and distribution of nails, sheet lead, slates and postholes recovered during excavation has enabled some of the wooden as well as masonry buildings to be reconstructed. Waterlogged deposits had preserved a rich assemblage of seeds, birds, fish and animal bone which reveal evidence of the dining habits of Welsh lords, their guests and household. Of particular interest are the finds associated with the siege of 1287 which include a knop-headed mace, spearheads and armour-piercing arrowheads which indicates that the longbow was the weapon of choice. Damage and repairs to the castle walls correlate with historic accounts while three stone balls recovered by the excavation were undoubtedly thrown by the trebuchet recorded in contemporary accounts."

Book Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society for

Download or read book Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society for written by Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Excavation  Analysis and Interpretation of Early Bronze Age Barrows at Guiting Power  Gloucestershire

Download or read book Excavation Analysis and Interpretation of Early Bronze Age Barrows at Guiting Power Gloucestershire written by Alistair Marshall and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the full excavation, analysis and interpretation of two early Bronze Age round barrows at Guiting Power in the Cotswolds, a region where investigation and protection of such sites have been extremely poor, with many barrows unnecessarily lost to erosion, and with most existing excavation partial, and of low quality.

Book Transactions   Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society

Download or read book Transactions Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society written by Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Development of an Iron Age and Roman Settlement Complex at The Park and Bowsings  near Guiting Power  Gloucestershire  Farmstead and Stronghold

Download or read book The Development of an Iron Age and Roman Settlement Complex at The Park and Bowsings near Guiting Power Gloucestershire Farmstead and Stronghold written by Alistair Marshall and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excavations near Guiting Power in the Cotswolds reveal evidence of occupation until the late 4th century AD: a relatively undefended middle Iron Age farmstead was abandoned, followed by a mid to later Iron Age ditched enclosure. This latter site perhaps became dilapidated, with a Romanised farmstead developing over the traditional habitation area.

Book A Biography of Power  Research and Excavations at the Iron Age  oppidum  of Bagendon  Gloucestershire  1979 2017

Download or read book A Biography of Power Research and Excavations at the Iron Age oppidum of Bagendon Gloucestershire 1979 2017 written by Tom Moore and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the changing nature of power and identity from the Iron Age to the Roman period in Britain. It provides fresh insights into the origins and nature of one of the lesser-known, but perhaps most significant, Late Iron Age 'oppida' in Britain: Bagendon in Gloucestershire.

Book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial written by Sarah Tarlow and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook reviews the state of mortuary archaeology and its practice with forty-four chapters focusing on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading scholars in the field, it derives its examples and case studies from a wide range of time periods and geographical areas.

Book Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Transactions

Download or read book Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Transactions written by Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society for 1913  Vol  36  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society for 1913 Vol 36 Classic Reprint written by C. S. Taylor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society for 1913, Vol. 36 Cases for binding Vols. I to XXXVI, the Index to Vols. I to XX, and other Works printed by this Society for its members, or 1ssued to them with the Tmnsartz'ons, Will be supplied, and the volumes put in the same by the Sobiety's Binders, -messrs. A. (95 bolt, Tailor's Court, Broad Street, Bristol, at 15. 3d. Each. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Anglo Saxon Deviant Burial Customs

Download or read book Anglo Saxon Deviant Burial Customs written by Andrew Reynolds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts. It begins with the period following Roman rule and ends in the century following the Norman Conquest. The author argues that outcast burials in this period showed a clear pattern of development.

Book Urban Growth and the Medieval Church

Download or read book Urban Growth and the Medieval Church written by Nigel Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been recognised that the Church played a major role in the development of towns and cities from the earliest times, a fact attested to by the prominence and number of ecclesiastical buildings that still dominate many urban areas. Yet despite this physical evidence, and the work of archaeologists and historians, many important aspects of the early stages of urbanization in England are still poorly understood. Not least, there are many unanswered questions concerning the processes by which the larger towns emerged as planned settlements during the pre-Conquest centuries. Whilst the commitment of the Wessex kings is recognized, questions remain concerning the participation of the Church in this process. Likewise, our understanding of the Church's influence in the later development of towns is not yet fully developed. Many intriguing questions remain concerning such issues as the founding of parish churches and their boundaries, and the extent to which the Church, as a major landowner, helped shape the evolving identity of towns and their suburbs. It is questions such as these that this volume sets out to answer. Employing a wealth of historical and archaeological evidence, two key towns - Gloucester and Worcester - are closely examined in order to build up a picture of their respective developments throughout the medieval period. Through this multi-disciplinary and comparative approach, a picture begins to emerge the Church's role in helping to shape not only the spiritual, but also the social, economic and cultural development of the urban environment.

Book Dress and Identity in Iron Age Britain

Download or read book Dress and Identity in Iron Age Britain written by Elizabeth Marie Foulds and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of glass beads from four key study regions in Britain, the book aims to explore the role that this object played within the networks and relationships that constructed Iron Age society.