Church of St Michael and All Angels, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire Archaeological Watching Brief (Interior works -Phase 2) (original) (raw)

Excavations at the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Houghton-le-Spring in 2008

Durham Archaeological Journal, 19, 2014

A programme of archaeological fieldwork was undertaken at the church of St Michael and All Angels, Houghton-le-Spring (Figure 1 and 2) between January and June, 2008 in advance of the installation of a new underfloor heating system, which principally involved the excavation of the floors in the nave, crossing and north transept. Subsequent to the main phase of groundworks, parts of the nave wall were recorded when the plaster was stripped to reveal cracked masonry, and a basement space underneath the organ was examined when it, too, became available for inspection. The findings of this work suggest that the structural history of St Michael’s may be considerably older and more complex than hitherto believed, since it now appears likely that Roman building stones were used in the construction of the medieval church and features of pre-Norman and Norman provenance were also evidenced

Church of All Saints, Harston, Cambridgeshire: An Archaeological Watching Brief [2015]

2015

Archaeological monitoring of groundworks in advance of the construction of an extension to the south side of the Harston parish church comprised a building footing of 24sqm and a pipe trench of 74.3m across the present churchyard. Five unmarked burials were encountered at depths of between 0.6m and 0.8m, two of which on the south side of the church had been truncated by wall foundations comprised of clunch, flint and mortar. The stone walls formed an early phase of church architecture perhaps dating to the 15th century. Another all foundation was not directly related to the early building but comprised of the same construction material which included a reused 12th – 14th century weathering mould. It is possible that a number of the graves belong to this earliest phase of the church. A coffined inhumation of an infant was found to have been truncated by a modern drain. Dating to 1914, details of the individual are recorded in County archives. Post-Medieval truncation of other areas of the investigation area was noted in the form of sunken outhouses.

Recent archaeological work at St George’s church, Borough High Street, Southwark

2014

During 2005–6 the stabilisation of the foundations and the enlargement of the crypt of the church of St George the Martyr, Southwark included a programme of archaeological investigation carried out by Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA). Natural geology consisted of flood plain gravels, overlain by prehistoric wetland situated on the southern edge of a palaeochannel. Initial Roman activity (c AD 50–70) consisted of dumping to raise the ground level, which was then occupied by a succession of late 1st and early 2nd century clay-and-timber buildings fronting onto the western edge of the bridge approach road. To the rear of these buildings was a series of yard surfaces, containing hearths, ovens and an oval animal pen. Late Roman activity consisted of a rubbish pit (AD 250–400). The earliest post-Roman activity consisted of external dumping and rubbish pits, dating from the 13th century. During the late 13th or early 14th centuries a cemetery was established to the east of the parish c...

St. Peter's Church, Barton-upon-Humber: Excavation and Structural Study, 1978–81

The Antiquaries Journal, 1982

SummaryFour seasons of excavation and structural study in St. Peter's Church have revealed a complex sequence, beginning with domestic occupation of the Pagan Saxon period, followed by a Middle Saxon settlement enclosure with adjacent cemetery of Christian character. In the later tenth century a three-celled turriform church was built in the cemetery, after the exhumation of graves covering its intended site. Related features in the cemetery include the foundation of a large free-standing cross, a group of wells and an oven, probably for baking bread, all grouped to the east of the chancel. Some of the pre-Conquest graves yielded evidence of probable barkwood coffins built with clenches and roves, while some twenty further graves contained rectangular timber coffins in varying states of preservation. Several were in near-perfect condition and have yielded exceptionally good evidence for techniques and tools employed by Anglo-Saxon carpenters.The extant Saxon and medieval fabric ...