The Archaeology of Kenilworth Castle's Elizabethan Garden : Excavation and Investigation 2004-2008.
Dix, Brian.
The Archaeology of Kenilworth Castle's Elizabethan Garden : Excavation and Investigation 2004-2008. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (90 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Figure 1.1 Site location -- 2. Background -- Historical and archaeological background -- Location, topography and geology -- Figure 2.1 Kenilworth Castle layout, with area of investigation marked -- Figure 2.2 View of Leicester's gatehouse, converted to a residence after the Civil War, looking north-west -- Figure 2.3 Detail of 1817-engraving of the Newnham Paddox fresco (c1620) -- Figure 2.4 Plan made for Sir William Dugdale, published in 1656 as part of his Antiquities of Warwickshire Illustrated -- Figure 2.5 Detail of an undated engraving, c1820, of the keep with slighting debris spilling into the garden area at right -- Figure 2.6 Undated aerial view of Kenilworth Castle from the west, probably late 1960s -- 3. Aims, Objectives and Methodology -- Aims and methodology -- New garden design -- Watching brief -- Figure 3.1 2005 excavation looking west from the gatehouse roof -- Figure 3.2 2006 excavation looking west from the gatehouse roof -- Figure 3.4 View of the slighted north side of the keep overlooking the 1975-garden, taken in 2005. -- The Excavated Evidence -- 4. The medieval castle (1120-1563) -- Outer bailey curtain wall and associated towers -- Inner bailey ditch -- Other medieval features -- Figure 4.1 General plan of excavated features -- Figure 4.2 Medieval features -- Figure 4.3 The north curtain wall -- Figure 4.4 Trench 9, plan and sections -- Figure 4.5 The north curtain wall and the postern tower, Trench 11 -- Figure 4.6 Medieval drain -- Figure 4.7 Medieval cesspit, section -- Figure 4.8 Medieval cesspit, view looking west -- 5. The Elizabethan garden (1563-1605) -- The central fountain -- Rubble-filled pits -- The aviary -- The western boundary wall -- The terrace. The east side of the garden -- Figure 5.1 Elizabethan and other early garden features -- Figure 5.2 Plan and section of the fountain foundation, culverts and adjoining pit -- Figure 5.3 The fountain foundations, looking west -- Figure 5.4 The fountain foundations, looking south to forebuilding -- Figure 5.5 Western culvert 562, looking east -- Figure 5.6 Elizabethan stone and tile-filled pits -- Figure 5.7 Tile-filled pit 5108 -- Figure 5.8 Sandstone and mortar base 5362 -- Figure 5.9 Trench 6, dogleg section of wall -- 6. Seventeenth-century developments and subsequent slighting (1605-1650) -- The early seventeenth century -- The Civil War defences -- The slighting of the castle -- Figure 6.1 Sixteenth or seventeenth-century drain, plan and section -- Figure 6.2 Seventeenth-century and Civil War features -- Figure 6.3 Civil War ditch, Trench 1 sections -- Figure 6.4 Isometric view of the survival of the ditches and terraces -- 7. Late seventeenth-century abandonment and the later orchard and kitchen garden -- The late seventeenth century to 1937 -- H. M. Office of Works onwards - 1938 to 1975 -- The 1975 Garden Restoration -- Figure 7.1 Post-Civil War features -- Figure 7.2 Copy of garden survey drawn by M. W. Thompson, c1968 -- Figure 7.3 Nineteenth-century horse burial -- Figure 7.4 Trenches 8 and 10, sections -- Figure 7.5 Sandstone stairs and landings leading from the forebuilding arch -- Figure 7.6 The forebuilding stairs -- Figure 7.7 1975-garden layout features -- Figure 7.8 The 1975garden photographed in 2005, looking north from the forebuilding -- Figure 7.9 Bedding trenches for 1975 box hedging, scale rod in 50cm divisions -- The finds, faunal and environmental evidence -- 8. The pottery -- Analytical methodology -- Fabric types -- Chronology -- Pottery from key medieval contexts -- Cesspit 5356/5357 -- Inner Bailey Ditch 5155. Medieval ditch fill 573 -- Residuality -- Pottery from key Elizabethan contexts -- Fountain 565 and 5422 -- Garden and terrace layers 501 and 5137 -- Probable soakaway 5372/5373 -- Rubble-filled foundation pits: 571, 578, 5107, 5113, 5370 and 5380 -- Pottery from key Civil War contexts -- Ditch 112, 118, 5160 and 5165/5164 -- Slighting and robber trench activity 904, 905, 906, 1113, and 5384/5381 -- Pottery from key Post-Civil War contexts -- Orchard and Kitchen Garden Layers 109, 407, 4304 and 5397 -- Table 8.1 Pottery fabrics -- Figure 8.1 North Italian Sgraffito Ware -- Table 8.2 Ceramic Phase (CP) chronology, with pottery occurrence by ceramic phase -- Figure 8.2 Jar rim, Warwick Sandy Ware (12th-13th centuries) -- Table 8.3 Pottery occurrence by fabric type (major wares) by ceramic phase -- Figure 8.3 Tankard body and upper part of the handle, White Stoneware -- 9. Other finds -- Finds by period -- Medieval -- Elizabethan -- Civil War -- Post-Civil War to Modern -- Introduction -- Clay tobacco-pipes -- Plaster of Paris figurine -- Glass -- The vessel and window glass -- Photographic plates -- Window fragment by Iain Soden and Claire Finn -- Table 9.1 Individual other finds quantified by material -- Table 9.2 Catalogue of coins (compiled by Dr Mark Curteis) -- Figure 9.1 Other finds -- Figure 9.2 Lead pipe fragment, found ex situ in the fountain foundations -- Figure 9.3 X-ray of armour plate, iron -- Figure 9.4 Plaster of Paris angel figurine -- Table 9.3 Catalogue of selected finds -- Table 9.4 Clay tobacco-pipes by context -- Figure 9.5 Fragment of leaded window -- Table 9.5 Glass by trench and weight (g) -- 10. Ceramic building materials -- Bricks -- Elizabethan -- Medieval -- Seventeenth to early twentieth centuries -- Roof tiles -- Ceramic floor or wall tiles -- Table 10.1 Ceramic roof tile by period -- 11. The worked stone. T1001 (SF129) -- T1002 (SF2) -- T1003 (SF1) -- T1004 (SF36) -- T1005 (SF41) -- T1006 (SF40) -- T1007 -- T1008 -- T1009 (SF133) -- T1010 (SF131) -- Miscellaneous -- Summary -- T1011-1013 -- Figure 11.1 T1001: base of three shafts, early fourteenth century -- Figure 11.2 Stone baluster T1002 (left), and upper baluster found previously (right) -- Figure 11.3 T1006: possible twelfth or thirteenth-century step -- Figure 11.4 Voussoir stone T1007 reused in wall 602 -- cf. Fig 5.9 -- Figure 11.5 T1009: fourteenth-century fluted shaft -- Table 11.1 Worked stone -- 12. The animal bones -- Table 12.1 Total number of animal bone fragments per species -- Table 12.2 Ageing of species by tooth wear (Grant 1982) -- Table 12.3 Definitions of dental eruption and attrition stages used in analysis of age at death. -- 13. Environmental evidence -- 14. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Websites.
Reports on archaeologcial excavations at Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, relating to the Elizabethan garden, as well as medieval remains, later Civil War activity, and more recent land-use.
9781784915759
Kenilworth (England)-History.
Electronic books.
DA690.K4 D59 2017
355.7
The Archaeology of Kenilworth Castle's Elizabethan Garden : Excavation and Investigation 2004-2008. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (90 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Figure 1.1 Site location -- 2. Background -- Historical and archaeological background -- Location, topography and geology -- Figure 2.1 Kenilworth Castle layout, with area of investigation marked -- Figure 2.2 View of Leicester's gatehouse, converted to a residence after the Civil War, looking north-west -- Figure 2.3 Detail of 1817-engraving of the Newnham Paddox fresco (c1620) -- Figure 2.4 Plan made for Sir William Dugdale, published in 1656 as part of his Antiquities of Warwickshire Illustrated -- Figure 2.5 Detail of an undated engraving, c1820, of the keep with slighting debris spilling into the garden area at right -- Figure 2.6 Undated aerial view of Kenilworth Castle from the west, probably late 1960s -- 3. Aims, Objectives and Methodology -- Aims and methodology -- New garden design -- Watching brief -- Figure 3.1 2005 excavation looking west from the gatehouse roof -- Figure 3.2 2006 excavation looking west from the gatehouse roof -- Figure 3.4 View of the slighted north side of the keep overlooking the 1975-garden, taken in 2005. -- The Excavated Evidence -- 4. The medieval castle (1120-1563) -- Outer bailey curtain wall and associated towers -- Inner bailey ditch -- Other medieval features -- Figure 4.1 General plan of excavated features -- Figure 4.2 Medieval features -- Figure 4.3 The north curtain wall -- Figure 4.4 Trench 9, plan and sections -- Figure 4.5 The north curtain wall and the postern tower, Trench 11 -- Figure 4.6 Medieval drain -- Figure 4.7 Medieval cesspit, section -- Figure 4.8 Medieval cesspit, view looking west -- 5. The Elizabethan garden (1563-1605) -- The central fountain -- Rubble-filled pits -- The aviary -- The western boundary wall -- The terrace. The east side of the garden -- Figure 5.1 Elizabethan and other early garden features -- Figure 5.2 Plan and section of the fountain foundation, culverts and adjoining pit -- Figure 5.3 The fountain foundations, looking west -- Figure 5.4 The fountain foundations, looking south to forebuilding -- Figure 5.5 Western culvert 562, looking east -- Figure 5.6 Elizabethan stone and tile-filled pits -- Figure 5.7 Tile-filled pit 5108 -- Figure 5.8 Sandstone and mortar base 5362 -- Figure 5.9 Trench 6, dogleg section of wall -- 6. Seventeenth-century developments and subsequent slighting (1605-1650) -- The early seventeenth century -- The Civil War defences -- The slighting of the castle -- Figure 6.1 Sixteenth or seventeenth-century drain, plan and section -- Figure 6.2 Seventeenth-century and Civil War features -- Figure 6.3 Civil War ditch, Trench 1 sections -- Figure 6.4 Isometric view of the survival of the ditches and terraces -- 7. Late seventeenth-century abandonment and the later orchard and kitchen garden -- The late seventeenth century to 1937 -- H. M. Office of Works onwards - 1938 to 1975 -- The 1975 Garden Restoration -- Figure 7.1 Post-Civil War features -- Figure 7.2 Copy of garden survey drawn by M. W. Thompson, c1968 -- Figure 7.3 Nineteenth-century horse burial -- Figure 7.4 Trenches 8 and 10, sections -- Figure 7.5 Sandstone stairs and landings leading from the forebuilding arch -- Figure 7.6 The forebuilding stairs -- Figure 7.7 1975-garden layout features -- Figure 7.8 The 1975garden photographed in 2005, looking north from the forebuilding -- Figure 7.9 Bedding trenches for 1975 box hedging, scale rod in 50cm divisions -- The finds, faunal and environmental evidence -- 8. The pottery -- Analytical methodology -- Fabric types -- Chronology -- Pottery from key medieval contexts -- Cesspit 5356/5357 -- Inner Bailey Ditch 5155. Medieval ditch fill 573 -- Residuality -- Pottery from key Elizabethan contexts -- Fountain 565 and 5422 -- Garden and terrace layers 501 and 5137 -- Probable soakaway 5372/5373 -- Rubble-filled foundation pits: 571, 578, 5107, 5113, 5370 and 5380 -- Pottery from key Civil War contexts -- Ditch 112, 118, 5160 and 5165/5164 -- Slighting and robber trench activity 904, 905, 906, 1113, and 5384/5381 -- Pottery from key Post-Civil War contexts -- Orchard and Kitchen Garden Layers 109, 407, 4304 and 5397 -- Table 8.1 Pottery fabrics -- Figure 8.1 North Italian Sgraffito Ware -- Table 8.2 Ceramic Phase (CP) chronology, with pottery occurrence by ceramic phase -- Figure 8.2 Jar rim, Warwick Sandy Ware (12th-13th centuries) -- Table 8.3 Pottery occurrence by fabric type (major wares) by ceramic phase -- Figure 8.3 Tankard body and upper part of the handle, White Stoneware -- 9. Other finds -- Finds by period -- Medieval -- Elizabethan -- Civil War -- Post-Civil War to Modern -- Introduction -- Clay tobacco-pipes -- Plaster of Paris figurine -- Glass -- The vessel and window glass -- Photographic plates -- Window fragment by Iain Soden and Claire Finn -- Table 9.1 Individual other finds quantified by material -- Table 9.2 Catalogue of coins (compiled by Dr Mark Curteis) -- Figure 9.1 Other finds -- Figure 9.2 Lead pipe fragment, found ex situ in the fountain foundations -- Figure 9.3 X-ray of armour plate, iron -- Figure 9.4 Plaster of Paris angel figurine -- Table 9.3 Catalogue of selected finds -- Table 9.4 Clay tobacco-pipes by context -- Figure 9.5 Fragment of leaded window -- Table 9.5 Glass by trench and weight (g) -- 10. Ceramic building materials -- Bricks -- Elizabethan -- Medieval -- Seventeenth to early twentieth centuries -- Roof tiles -- Ceramic floor or wall tiles -- Table 10.1 Ceramic roof tile by period -- 11. The worked stone. T1001 (SF129) -- T1002 (SF2) -- T1003 (SF1) -- T1004 (SF36) -- T1005 (SF41) -- T1006 (SF40) -- T1007 -- T1008 -- T1009 (SF133) -- T1010 (SF131) -- Miscellaneous -- Summary -- T1011-1013 -- Figure 11.1 T1001: base of three shafts, early fourteenth century -- Figure 11.2 Stone baluster T1002 (left), and upper baluster found previously (right) -- Figure 11.3 T1006: possible twelfth or thirteenth-century step -- Figure 11.4 Voussoir stone T1007 reused in wall 602 -- cf. Fig 5.9 -- Figure 11.5 T1009: fourteenth-century fluted shaft -- Table 11.1 Worked stone -- 12. The animal bones -- Table 12.1 Total number of animal bone fragments per species -- Table 12.2 Ageing of species by tooth wear (Grant 1982) -- Table 12.3 Definitions of dental eruption and attrition stages used in analysis of age at death. -- 13. Environmental evidence -- 14. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Websites.
Reports on archaeologcial excavations at Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, relating to the Elizabethan garden, as well as medieval remains, later Civil War activity, and more recent land-use.
9781784915759
Kenilworth (England)-History.
Electronic books.
DA690.K4 D59 2017
355.7