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CAR Report 01: summary

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Colchester Archaeological Report 1: Aspects of Anglo-Saxon and Norman Colchester
by Philip Crummy
(with contributions from Nina Crummy, Tania M Dickinson, Vera I Evison, Patricia Galloway, D E Greenway, Margaret Guido, Sonia C Hawkes, S E Rigold, D Stephenson, D M Wilson, G Zarnecki)

Date report completed: 1981
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Keywords: st john's abbey, anglo-saxon, colchester, norman, domesday, culver street, lion walk, bones, brooch, weapons, eudo dapifer, colchester castle

Summary. Contents

Illustrations

Introduction and acknowledgments

Chapter 1 - The archaeological evidence: 5th to 9th centuries

Chapter 2 - Some written evidence

Chapter 3 - The ceramic evidence: 10th to 12th centuries

Chapter 4 - Excavations in the grounds of St John's Abbey

Chapter 5 - Topographical evidence

Chapter 6 - Stone houses in Colchester

Chapter 7 - Colchester from the 5th to the 12th century: general discussion and summary

Appendix 1 - Origins of personal names of burgesses in Colchester Domesday and of moneyers operating in Colchester during the period 979-1087 by Nina Crummy

Appendix 2 - Bronze mount from the castle bailey

Appendix 3 - Earliest known references to present streets in Colchester town centre by Nina Crummy

Appendix 4 - Notes on Colchester keep

Appendix 5 - Notes on the borough seals of Colchester

Appendix 6 - Descriptions of illustrated pottery and other clay objects

Bibliography

Index

© Colchester Archaeological Trust, Department of the Environment, and Council for British Archaeology

First Edition 1981

Reprinted 1995 by the Colchester Archaeological Trust (with a few additional footnotes)

ISBN 0 906780 06 3