Figure 1: Late Saxon plans of Cricklade (top), Oxford ... · The Thames Valley in the Medieval and...
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R i v e r T hames 0 200m N 0 200m N marshy land marshy land Causeway of possible Roman origin ?ford ? gate house or chapel Site of North Gate Site of East Gate Site of South Gate Site of West Gate St Sampsons Church (Minster) Saxon Roads Present day Roads R i v e r T h am e s High Street St Martin's Church Goldsmiths Lane Mill Lane St Mary's Street St Peter's Street Thames Street New Road New Road Hart Street Church Lane Kine Croft St Rumbold's Church St Leonard's Church Saxon Cemetery St Leonard's Lane Saxon Rampart Suggested Line of Saxon Rampart Area obscured by Wallingford Castle (post Conquest) Original line of street prior to diversion? S t M a r t i n ' s S tr e e t Kine Croft Bull Croft Castle Street Wood Street Weapon finds Saxon Ditch South Gate River Thames River Cherwell North Gate East Gate ?ditch High St. Queen St. New Inn Hall St. St Michaels St. Ship St. Church St. Castle St. Catte St. Turl St. Cornmarket St. St Aldates Merton St. St Giles flax retting and timber waterfront ditch? West Gate flax retting and wattle fences flax retting wattle fences wattle fences mid Saxon timber bridge much silting in channels wattle fences late Saxon ford 2 1 3 ? ? ? ? ? 4 6 7 5 8 Churches 1. St Michael at the North Gate 2. St Martin 3. St Ebbe 4. St Aldate 5. St Peter in the East 6. St Frideswides 7. St Mary the Virgin 8. St George's Tower Roads Rivers Town Defences River Channels and Flooding Known Late Saxon Roads Areas with some late Saxon occupation known from excavation Late Saxon Oxford N 0 100 200m ? cellared building THE THAMES THROUGH TIME The Archaeology of the Gravel Terraces of the Upper and Middle Thames: The Thames Valley in the Medieval and Post-Medieval Periods AD 1000-2000 Figure 1: Late Saxon plans of Cricklade (top), Oxford (Middle) and Wallingford (bottom) (after Booth et al. 2007, figs. 3.49–51)
Transcript of Figure 1: Late Saxon plans of Cricklade (top), Oxford ... · The Thames Valley in the Medieval and...
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Figure 1: Late Saxon plans of Cricklade (top), Oxford (Middle) and Wallingford (bottom) (after Booth et al. 2007, figs. 3.49–51)
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Figure 2: Late Saxon and medieval extents of Reading, Berkshire, showing position of St Mary’s Church and the Benedictine abbey (after Astill 1978, fig. 23)
THE THAMES THROUGH TIMEThe Archaeology of the Gravel Terraces of the Upper and Middle Thames:
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Figure 3: Medieval plan of Abingdon, Oxfordshire (after Booth et al. 2007, fig. 3.53)
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Figure 4: Medieval map of Chertsey, Surrey, c 1432 (©National Archives)
THE THAMES THROUGH TIMEThe Archaeology of the Gravel Terraces of the Upper and Middle Thames:
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Figure 5: Conjectural reconstruction of medieval Henley, c 1400 (adapted from a map by R B Peberdy), (©University of London)
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Figure 6: Plan of Oxford c 1375 showing the layout of its medieval town walls (©University of London)
THE THAMES THROUGH TIMEThe Archaeology of the Gravel Terraces of the Upper and Middle Thames:
The Thames Valley in the Medieval and Post-Medieval Periods AD 1000-2000
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Figure 7: (top) John Speed’s map of Reading, 1611, showing the locations of [1] the Dyehouse, [2] Minster Mill, [3] Yield Hall, and [4] St Giles Mill; (bottom) Excavation plan of early 14th-century structural remains of St Giles Mill (after Ford et al. 2013, 9, plate 1.3, 88, fig. 2.23
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Figure 8: Cricklade Market Cross at St Sampson’s Church (©Historic England)
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Figure 9: Ham Court, Bampton (©Historic England)
THE THAMES THROUGH TIMEThe Archaeology of the Gravel Terraces of the Upper and Middle Thames:
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Figure 10: The Deanery, Bampton (©Historic England)
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Figure 11: St Leonard’s Church, Eynsham (©Historic England)
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Figure 12: The fan vaulted interior of the 15th-century Divinity School, Oxford (©Historic England)
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Figure 13: Long Alley Almshouses, St Helen’s Street, Abingdon (©Historic England)
THE THAMES THROUGH TIMEThe Archaeology of the Gravel Terraces of the Upper and Middle Thames:
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Figure 14: The Chantry House, Henley (©Pictures of England)
THE THAMES THROUGH TIMEThe Archaeology of the Gravel Terraces of the Upper and Middle Thames:
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Figure 15: St Mary’s Church, High Street, Fairford (©Historic England)
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