H 290 x W 205 mm
80 pages
Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white
Published Apr 2017
ISBN
Paperback: 9781784915742
Digital: 9781784915759
Keywords
Kenilworth Castle; Warwickshire; Excavations; Elizabethan Garden; Reconstruction; English Heritage; MOLA Northampton; English Civil War
By Brian Dix, Stephen Parry, Claire Finn
Reports on archaeologcial excavations at Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, relating to the Elizabethan garden, as well as medieval remains, later Civil War activity, and more recent land-use.
1. Introduction ;
2. Background ;
3. Aims, Objectives and Methodology ;
The Excavated Evidence ;
4. The medieval castle (1120-1563) ;
5. The Elizabethan garden (1563-1605) ;
6. Seventeenth-century developments and subsequent slighting (1605-1650) ;
7. Late seventeenth-century abandonment and the later orchard and kitchen garden ;
The finds, faunal and environmental evidence ;
8. The pottery ;
9. Other finds ;
10. Ceramic building materials ;
11. The worked stone ;
12. The animal bones ;
13. Environmental evidence ;
14. Conclusions ;
Bibliography
This volume is a worthy edition to the field of garden archaeology and will be a valuable source for those tasked with similar projects. Inevitably it will be overshadowed by its glossy sibling, but here we have the detail and here we have the archaeology.