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Excavations at Winchester, 1971: Tenth and Final Interim Report:1 Part I2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

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In 1971 the Winchester Excavations Committee undertook excavations on six sites in the city, a seventh being excavated by the Winchester Schools Archaeological Committee. The final season was also the longest: work began on 29 May and lasted for twenty-two weeks until 1 November. About £25,470 was spent and an average of 200 people took part each working day during the ten weeks of the full season from 21 June to 29 August.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1975

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page 96 note 3 The Winchester Schools Archaeological Committee completed its work at Lankhills with a last season in 1972, the results of which are also ineluded in this final interim report.

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page 98 note 2 Observation, recording, and the excavation of a i-m.-wide section near the angle of the ditch were undertaken by the Winchester City Rescue Archaeologist. The results are shown here in fig. 1, an earlier version of which appeared in [Wessex] Archaeological Review, 6 (1971), 30, fig. 2Google Scholar.

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page 101 note 2 A cross-section of the wall is preserved in a specially constructed cupboard in the furnace room: Ward-Evans, Sidney, Winchester Castle. Excavations for Extension of County Offices, 1930-1931 (Portsmouth, n.d. [1931])Google Scholar.

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page 104 note 1 Antiq. Journ. l (1970), 288, pls. XLIa, XLIIaGoogle Scholar.

page 104 note 2 Throughout the following discussion reference should be made to the over-all plan published in the 1969 interim report (ibid, lii (1972), fig. 2) which also incorporates the 1970 evidence. It has not been thought worthwhile to republish this plan when much of the relevant new evidence is available on fig. 4 of the present report.

page 104 note 3 Ibid. 289–90.

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page 110 note 2 The interpretations put forward in this report differ substantially from those outlined in Britannia, iii (1972), 348–9Google Scholar, since it has been possible in the interval to phase the site records fully in preparation for the final publication.

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page 111 note 3 Imp Nero Caesar Aug P Max TrP PP / Victory with buckler SPQR. Mint of Lyon. I am grateful to Mr. Richard Reece for his identification of all coins from the 1971 season.

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page 113 note 3 Observation and record by the Winchester City Rescue Archaeologist.

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page 116 note 2 Two towers on the western defences north of West Gate were of medieval date and no trace of earlier bastions was observed in this area (Antiq. Journ. xlv (1965), 238)Google Scholar. It thus seems unlikely that the entire circuit of the walls was strengthened by the addition of bastions in the fourth century.

page 118 note 1 On the Switsur calculations, see above, p. 103, n. 4. Recalibration by the Ralph–Michael–Han calculations (as above, p. 103, n. 4) would suggest dates of A.D. 700–30±70 and A.D. 670±190, respectively. See Radiocarbon, 16. 2 (1974), 184Google Scholar.

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page 119 note 1 See now Frank Barlow, Martin Biddle, Olof von Feilitzen, and Keene, D. J., Winchester in the early Middle Ages: an edition and discussion of the Winton Domesday (Winchester Studies 1, ed. Biddle, M., Oxford, 1975), p. 275Google Scholar.

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page 120 note 1 Isolated settlements, apparently distinct from the town or its suburbs, have been noted at several points relatively close to the walls in the Roman as well as in later periods. There was an early Roman settlement of this kind, including a cemetery, to the south of Easton Lane, while medieval Winnall was itself a village distinct from the city.

page 120 note 2 Under the direction of Mr. Giles Clarke, assisted by Miss Ros Bignell, to both of whom I am grateful for allowing me to draw on the records of their work, now deposited with the Winchester Research Unit.

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page 121 note 2 The excavation was sponsored by the Winchester Schools Archaeological Committee, formed in 1971 under the chairmanship of Mr. Richard Bass. Permission to dig was given by the Hampshire County Council, owners of the site. The headmaster, Mr. D. V. Teale, and the staff of Lankhills School encouraged the excavation, and made available many of their facilities. Financial support was given by Winchester College and other schools in Winchester, by the Hampshire County Council, the British Academy, Winchester Corporation, the Society of Antiquaries, the Administrators of the Haverfield Bequest, and two anonymous donors. Winchester Corporation and the Winchester Excavations Committee lent equipment. The finds were conserved by Suzanne Keene and drawn by Nick Griffiths, both of the Winchester Research Unit, whose staff have given much help and advice. The encouragement, suggestions, and comments of Martin Biddle contributed greatly to the success of the Lankhills project. Almost all the work on the site was done at weekends and during school holidays by volunteers attending school in Winchester. Supervisors were Ros Bignell, David Critchley, Simon Esmonde-Cleary, and Susanne Hughes. Jock Macdonald, assistant master at Winchester College, was deputy director, and was also responsible for most of the administrative work. His contribution has been essential throughout the excavation.

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page 122 note 2 Ibid. lii (1972), 95.

page 122 note 3 Ibid. 1 (1970), 295–8. fig. 3 (plans of Graves 81 and 106); lii (1972), 97–8.

page 122 note 4 Ibid. xlviii (1968), 258.

page 122 note 5 Ibid. xlix (1969), 302.

page 122 note 6 Dr. Richard Reece has kindly examined all the coins.

page 123 note 1 Most of the bracelets at Lankhills were either of bone with bronze clasps, or of bronze. A few were ivory, iron, shale, or jet. Little significance seems to attach to the differing materials, which will not normally be specified here.

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