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Friars, Quakers, Industry and Urbanisation (Hardcover)
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The development of Cabot Circus shopping centre presented a rare
opportunity for the archaeological investigation of a large part of
the Broadmead suburb of Bristol. The former presence of a Dominican
Friary and later Friends' Meeting House were already well known,
and surviving buildings from both remain within a large open piazza
in the west of the new development. Further elements of the friary
complex, including remains of the church and two cloisters, were
revealed in various archaeological interventions within the area of
the former precinct, enabling a reconstruction of the precinct and
its environs to be made. The project has also shed light on other
aspects of the suburb's past that were previously less well known.
Borehole investigations have allowed the prehistoric environment of
the River Frome valley to be characterised, with episodes of
small-scale tree clearance from the surrounding slopes during the
later Neolithic and early Bronze Age, and the floodplain remaining
as mud flats until the development of the Broadmead suburb in the
12th century and the arrival of the Dominicans in the 13th century.
River access and the presence of flowing water were important
assets for the industrial medieval and later suburb, which was home
to tanning, leatherworking, ironworking and cloth industries. The
Dissolution saw the demolition of parts of the friary, and by the
later 17th century the surviving claustral buildings were occupied
by trade guilds and the Quakers had built their first Meeting
House. The 18th and 19th centuries were times of enormous expansion
for Bristol, when large-scale development occurred, expanding the
suburb to the north and east of the former friary. These new
developments included industrial premises, saw mills, cabinet works
and malthouses, alongside terraces and courts of domestic
dwellings. The recovery of a significant assemblage of tobacco pipe
bowls and kiln wasters has enabled the development of new typology
for Bristol, which should prove invaluable in dating future
assemblages recovered from the city.
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