^{page 165 note 1} Three seasons, each of two weeks, have been carried out, as well as some field-work at other times. I should acknowledge here the contributions of those who with me have been responsible for the direction of the work: namely H. M. Colvin, Jeffrey May, Philip Rahtz, F. H. Thompson and M. W. Thompson, as well as of a small body of adult students, which included Elisabeth Exwood, Marjorie Hallam, Hilary Healey, Philip Mayes, Jean Ralston, T. H. Rickman, Eric Rogers, Margaret Walton, and Brian and Freda Waters.

^{page 165 note 2} Raman Pottery Kilns at Little London, Lincs. (Shirebrook, 1937).

^{page 165 note 3} Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, sub anno; V.C.H. Notts., p. 248.

^{page 165 note 4} Foster and Longley, Lincolnshire Domesday (Lincoln Record Society), p. 11.

^{page 165 note 5} Cole, , ‘The Royal Borough of Torksey’, A.A.S.R.P. xxviii (1906), 473Google Scholar; Gras, N.B., Early English Customs System (1918), p. 155.Google Scholar

^{page 166 note 1} Historia Regum (Rolls Series), ii, 260.

^{page 167 note 1} Medieval Lincoln (1948), pp. 310–12.

^{page 167 note 2} Cole, op. cit., p. 462.

^{page 167 note 3} Medieval Lincoln, p. 307; R. H. Dolley (ed.) Anglo-Saxon Coins (1961), pp. 146, 176.

^{page 167 note 4} Foster and Longley, Lincolnshire Domesday (Lincoln Record Society), p. xxxv.

^{page 167 note 5} The evidence from the Patent Rolls is recited in Hill, op. cit., p. 312.

^{page 167 note 6} Cole, loc. cit., p. 476.

^{page 168 note 1} Leland, Itinerary, ed. Toulmin Smith, i, 32.

^{page 169 note 1} There are two manuscripts of the survey, both in the British Museum, one in Cotton MSS. Dom. xv, the other Cottonian Charters ii—14 (1–6). The statement of Torksey tolls printed by Gras comes from this source, and Cole's paper is largely based on it.

^{page 169 note 2} e.g. Stratford on Avon, Tavistock, etc. See M. W. Barley, Documents relating to … Newark on Trent (Thoroton Soc. Record Series, xvi), p. xxi.

^{page 169 note 3} C. W. Foster, State of the Church (Lincoln Record Society), p. 360.

^{page 169 note 4} Bryant's map of 1828; early editions of the O.S. map.

^{page 169 note 5} Lincoln Record Office, Padley, 3/264.

^{page 172 note 1} Queen's College, Oxford, MS. 466, fol. 5^V; M. W. Barley, Documents relating to … Newark on Trent (Thoroton Society Record Series, xvi), p. xv.

^{page 172 note 2} Arch. Ael. xxv (1947), 181; xxvii (1949), 177.

^{page 172 note 3} Cole reported that ‘some hundred tone of its foundations’ were ‘carted away to mend the roads’, Joe. cit., p. 463.

^{page 173 note 1} Cf. Med. Arch, iii (1959), fig. 15.

^{page 174 note 1} Cole, loc. cit., p. 463. The flood bank running south from the railway embankment has recently been raised by the Trent River Board.

^{page 174 note 2} Belton House, Lines.; deed box labelled 'sir Abraham Hume Bart’. The manor of Torksey passed in 1838 to Sophia (Hume), wife of the first Earl Brownlow of Belton House,

^{page 174 note 3} The earthworks in Abbey Close were levelled c. 1955, to convert the field into a caravan park, but our Fellow, Mr. F. T. Baker, who observed the levelling, reported that no structures were to be seen.

^{page 175 note 1} I am indebted to Dr. R. B. Elliott of the Geology Department of Nottingham University preparing microscopic sections and identifying the millstone grit, and to Mr. S. E. Ellis of the British Museum (Natural History) for confirming the identity of the Niedermendig rock.

^{page 177 note 1} The detailed examination of the structure here summarized was the work of Mr. P. Mayes.

^{page 179 note 1} Med. Arch, iii (1959), p. 44, fig. 19.

^{page 179 note 2} The practice of making cooking pots with walls no more than 3–4 mm. in thickness seems to be a distinctive feature of the technique of Thetford potters, and is also characteristic of northern cooking pots of the thirteenth century. See Jarrett, M. G. and Edwards, B. J. N. in Arch. Ael. xxxix (1961), 254.Google Scholar

^{page 181 note 1} Trans. Thoroton Soc. lxv (1961), 25, fig. 4. (14).

^{page 182 note 1} This statement corrects the view expressed in Trans. Thoroton Soc. lx (1956), 31, that the sherds in question were ‘somewhat less sandy than that from the Torksey kiln’.

^{page 182 note 2} Archaeometry, v (1962), 11, 15, 21, 25–26.

^{page 182 note 3} Med. Arch, iii (1959), 44.

^{page 182 note 4} I am indebted to Group Capt. A. G. Knocker and Mr. J. G. Hurst for the opportunity to discuss Thetford and other East Anglian material, and particularly for access to the latter's manuscript report on the kilns at Cox Lane, Ipswich.

^{page 182 note 5} See Hurst, J. G. in Archaeometry, v (1962), 26.Google Scholar

^{page 182 note 6} Ibid., p. 11.

^{page 184 note 1} For the use of this route in the fourteenth century, see Barley, M. W. in Lines. Arch, and Arch. Soc. Reports and Papers, i (1936), 15–16.Google Scholar

^{page 184 note 2} I am indebted to the following for information incorporated in the map: L. A. S. Butler, J. G. Hurst, Mrs. E. H. Rudkin, and S. Revill.

^{page 186 note 1} In the muniment room at Belton House, Lines.; Bundle II in tin box labelled ‘sir Abraham Hume Bart’.