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Medieval and Post-Medieval Development within Bristol's Inner Suburbs (Paperback)
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Medieval and Post-Medieval Development within Bristol's Inner Suburbs (Paperback)
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This volume contains the results of four archaeological projects
undertaken within the historic suburbs of Bristol. Excavations at
nos 26 28 and at nos 55 60 St Thomas Street were both within the
12th-century planned suburb of Redcliffe, just to the southeast of
the medieval city. Investigations at Harbourside and at Cabot
House, Deanery Road, were undertaken in the medieval district of
Billeswick, to the southwest of the city centre and in the vicinity
of Bristol Cathedral, formerly the church of the 12th-century St
Augustine s Abbey. However, it is the general lack of evidence for
significant development at these sites throughout the medieval and
post-medieval periods and up to the beginning of the 18th century
that provides a common theme. The scarcity of evidence for medieval
and post-medieval development at the Billeswick sites, Cabot House
and Harbourside, is unsurprising as both were in the ownership of
the abbey or cathedral throughout this period, and were clearly of
value as undeveloped land, either as parkland (as at Cabot House)
or meadow (i.e. Canon s Marsh at Harbourside). The dearth of
evidence from the St Thomas Street sites in Redcliffe was more
unexpected, though this appears to corroborate documentary evidence
suggesting that this part of the suburb remained something of a
backwater into late post-medieval times. At nos 55 60, there was
little evidence for anything more substantial than simple
boundaries and timber structures, perhaps used for drying cloth,
until the beginning of the 18th century. At nos 26 28 there was no
evidence for tenements until late into the post-medieval period and
the site may well have been part of a medieval grange. The
development of the first substantial buildings at both St Thomas
Street sites, of new streets and terraces at Cabot House, and of
the ropewalks and later industrial development of Canon s Marsh at
Harbourside, all reflect the rapid expansion and building boom
Bristol enjoyed in the 18th century, largely a result of the city s
involvement in the Atlantic trade."
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