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Old Abbey Farm, Risley (Paperback)
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Old Abbey Farm, Risley (Paperback)
Series: Lancaster Imprints
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List price R590
Loot Price R559
Discovery Miles 5 590
You Save R31 (5%)
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During the 1990s, Oxford Archaeology North (then Lancaster
University Archaeological Unit) conducted a programme of
evaluation, building recording, excavation and documentary research
at Old Abbey Farm, Risley. This small moated site, now in
Warrington Borough, was probably constructed after the sub-division
of the manor of Culcheth in 1246; timbers dated by dendrochronology
have suggested that a late thirteenth or possibly early fourteenth
century aisled hall formerly stood on the moated platform. In the
late medieval period the aisles were removed and new timber framing
was built below the arcade-plates; the renovated hall was accessed
by a substantial fifteenth century timber bridge. A crossing was
added to the hall in the mid sixteenth century and the bridge
across the moat was rebuilt in stone. From the seventeenth century,
the house was subject to piecemeal underpinning and rebuilding in
brick, and was extended in the mid eighteenth century. The project
provided a rare opportunity to record a building during demolition
and subsequently excavate below it, thereby maximising the
information retrieval. The project was a runnerup in the British
Archaeological Awards for 1996. The project has been generously
supported by UK Waste Management Limited (Biffa Waste Services
Limited) throughout.
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