Living Opposite to the Hospital of St John.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Jim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospital of St. John (Northampton, England).

Excavations (Archaeology)--England--Northampton.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Northampton (England)--Antiquities.

Northampton (England).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Living Opposite to the Hospital of St John

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2021.

Summary:

This volume presents the results of archaeological investigations undertaken at a building site in Northampton in 2014. The location was of interest as it lay opposite the former medieval hospital of St. John, which influenced the development of this area of the town.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright page

Contents Page

List of Figures

Figure 1.1 Site location

Figure 1.2 The context of medieval Northampton

Figure 1.3 The site on Speed's map of Northampton, 1610

Figure 1.4 The site on Pierce's map of Northampton, 1632 (aligned north-east)

Figure 1.5 A view of Northampton from Queen's Cross on the London Road by Peter Tillemans, 1721

Figure 1.6 Peter Tillemans' south-west prospect of Northampton, 1721

Figure 1.7 Peter Tillemans' western view of Northampton, 1721

Figure 1.8 Nathaniel and Samuel Buck's south-west prospect of Northampton, 1731

Figure 1.9 The site on Noble and Butlin's map of Northampton, 1746

Figure 1.10 The site on Cole and Roper's map of Northampton, 1807

Figure 1.11 The site on Wood and Law's map of Northampton, 1847

Figure 1.12 The site on the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map, 1885

Figure 1.13 The site on the Ordnance Survey map of 1925

Figure 1.14 The site on the Ordnance Survey map of 1938

Figure 1.15 The site on the Ordnance Survey map of 1993

Figure 1.16 Site layout and putative plot boundaries

Figure 2.1 Archaeologists investigate the quarry fill, Plot 1, looking south-east

Figure 2.2 St John's Street, Plots 1-2, quarry features, early-mid 12th century

Figure 2.3 Knight Street, Plot 4, prospection pits followed by yard activity, 12th century

Figure 2.4 Prospection pit [1307], Plot 4, upper fill in section, looking east

Figure 2.5 Prospection pit [1225], Plot 4, upper fill in section, looking south

Figure 2.6 Extraction pits, Plot 1, partially excavated (top left) and early 13th-century malting features (front), looking south

Figure 2.7 Extraction pit [2131], Plot 2, looking east.

Figure 2.8 Hearth pits at frontage, Plot 2 (bottom left), heavily robbed early 13th-century drying oven in former quarry (behind), wall [2030] (right), looking north-west

Figure 2.9 Hearth pits at frontage, Plot 2, viewed top down, looking west

Figure 2.10 St John's Street, Plot 3, carver's workshop, 12th century

Figure 2.11 The sequence of occupation layers at the frontage, Plot 3, looking south-west

Figure 2.12 The floor deposits of the carver's workshop and later tenements, Plot 3

Figure 2.13 Postholes and stakeholes of the carver's workshop, Plot 3, looking east

Figure 2.14 Earthen cellar [4248], Plot 3, cut by medieval pit sequence [4279], [4254] and [4251] and overlain by late 15th-century wall [4163], looking south

Figure 2.15 Oven [4282] and stakeholes, Plot 3, looking south

Figure 2.16 Archaeologists investigate the yard behind Knight Street, Plot 4, looking south

Figure 2.17 Bread oven [1155], Plot 4, following excavation of overlying deposits, looking north

Figure 2.18 Detailed plan of bread oven [1155], Plot 4

Figure 2.19 Pits in the yard behind Knight Street, Plot 4, looking north-east

Figure 2.20 Latrine pit [1068], Plot 4, fill in section, looking south-west

Figure 2.21 Latrine pit [1075], Plot 4, upper fill in section, looking north-east

Figure 2.22 Maltster's yard, Plot 1, drying oven [3118] (front), other malting features (middle ground), looking south-east

Figure 2.23 St John's Street, Plots 1-2, maltster's premises, late 12th-mid 13th centuries

Figure 2.24 Stone building of maltster's premises at frontage, Plot 2, looking south-west

Figure 2.25 Cobbled floor surface (2096) Plot 2, maltster's house, looking south

Figure 2.26 Stacked animal bone (3156), Plot 2, maltster's house, looking north-east.

Figure 2.27 Drying oven [3118], Plot 1, stoking pit (front) and firebox (behind), looking east

Figure 2.28 Detailed plan of drying oven [3118], Plot 1

Figure 2.29 Drying oven [3118], Plot 1, firebox viewed from above, looking north

Figure 2.30 Drying oven [3118], Plot 1, stoking pit viewed from above, looking north

Figure 2.31 Drying oven [4330], Plot 3, heavily robbed, firebox survived at back, looking south

Figure 2.32 Detailed plan of drying oven [4330], Plot 3

Figure 2.33 Drying oven [2132], Plot 2, surviving inner face of firebox wall, looking west

Figure 2.34 Postholes [3139] and [3137], Plot 1, looking north

Figure 2.35 Detailed plan of well [4332], the spillway [3122] and the water tank [3121], Plot 1

Figure 2.36 Well [4332], Plot 1, pitched stones at edge (left) and blue-grey clay (3130) layer (behind), looking east

Figure 2.37 Well [4332] (left) with blue clay (3130) packed against it, Plot 1

Figure 2.38 Well [4332], fire pit, clay-lined spillway and steeping tank (right), well [3360] and surface hearths (left), Plot 1, following initial cleaning, looking west

Figure 2.39 Well [4332], fire pit, clay-lined spillway and steeping tank (middle ground), well [3360] and surface hearths (rear right), Plot 1, during excavation, looking south

Figure 2.40 Clay-lined spillway [3122], Plot 1, fill in section, looking west

Figure 2.41 Robbed-out steeping tank [3121] and excavated spillway [3122] (right), Plot 1, looking south

Figure 2.42 Fire pit [3160] (rear) and spillway [3122] (front), Plot 1, fully excavated, looking south

Figure 2.43 Well [3360], Plot 1, initial investigation, looking east

Figure 2.44 Well [3360] and surface hearths [3273] and [3135], Plot 1, following initial cleaning, looking east

Figure 2.45 Surface hearth [3273], Plot 1, looking east.

Figure 2.46 Surface hearth [3135], Plot 1, looking north-east

Figure 2.47 Detailed plan and section of surface hearth [3135], Plot 1

Figure 2.48 Well [3010], Plot 1, half section by machine to base, looking east

Figure 2.49 Well [2121], Plot 2, surviving masonry (back), robbed-out (front), looking south-west

Figure 2.50 Back of the maltster's house, Plot 2, looking north

Figure 2.51 Archaeologists clear the abandonment soils to reveal occupation features, Plot 2, looking north

Figure 2.52 Pit [4115], Plot 2, remnants of stone retaining wall at base, looking north

Figure 2.53 Detail of construction pit [2270] and timber-lined pit [2170], Plot 2

Figure 2.54 Medieval and post-medieval yard space, Plot 3, looking south

Figure 2.55 St John's Street, Plot 3, medieval tenement, 13th-14th centuries

Figure 2.56 Back of medieval tenement, Plot 3, looking west

Figure 2.57 Stone threshold [4269], Plot 3, back door to medieval tenement, looking south

Figure 2.58 Latrine pit [4081], Plot 3, after removal of overlying late 15th-century wall, looking south-east

Figure 2.59 Pit [4223], Plot 3, abutting the back wall of the tenement, looking east

Figure 2.60 Pit [4020] (left), [4021] (rear left), and robbed-out continuation of wall [4024] (right), Plot 3, looking east

Figure 2.61 Pit sequence [4071], [4089] and [4088], overlain by wall late 15th-century wall [4099], Plot 3, looking south-west

Figure 2.62 St John's Street, Plots 1-2, tenement yards, late 12th-14th centuries

Figure 2.63 Well [2039], Plot 1, upper fill in section, looking south

Figure 2.64 Pit [3043], Plot 1, fill in section, clay-lining at base, looking south

Figure 2.65 Detail of clay-lined spillway [3122] and the robbed water tank [3121], Plot 1.

Figure 2.66 Detailed plan and section of stone-lined pit [2157] and hearth pit [2188], Plot 2

Figure 2.67 Stone-lined pit [2157], Plot 2, fully excavated, internal hearth removed, looking west

Figure 2.68 Knight Street, Plot 4, wells and pits, 13th-14th centuries

Figure 2.69 Well [1203], Plot 4, semi-circular remnant of stone lining cut by 15th-century pit [1200], top down view, looking north

Figure 2.70 Pit [1113] (left) and pit [1136] (right), Plot 4, fill in section, looking north

Figure 2.71 Well [1064], Plot 4, upper fill fully excavated, base fill in section, looking north

Figure 2.72 Detail of well [1064], Plot 4, composite fill and structural diagram

Figure 2.73 Well [1211], Plot 4, surviving at base of section with robber pit [1206] above it, looking north-east

Figure 2.74 Pit [1152], Plot 4, fill in section, cut by 18th-century well [1050] (right), looking west

Figure 2.75 Fetter Street, Plots 4-5, principal features, 15th-mid 16th centuries

Figure 2.76 Wall [1028] (left) and 18th-century wall [1011] (right), Plot 5, back of tenements fronting Fetter Street, looking south

Figure 2.77 The sequence of floor deposits in the 15th-century tenement fronting Fetter Street, Plot 5

Figure 2.78 Pits in the yard behind Fetter Street, Plot 5, looking north

Figure 2.79 Ditch [1057], Plots 4-5, fill in section against trench baulk, looking east

Figure 2.80 Wall [1235], Plot 5, overlying 12th-century quarry fills, abutted by pit [1281] (left), looking south

Figure 2.81 Pit [1200], Plot 5, fully excavated, cutting medieval well [1203] (right and below base), looking south-east

Figure 2.82 Long section, north-south, through pits behind Fetter Street, Plot 5, pit [1200] (front), looking south

Figure 2.83 Detail of long section, north-south, through pits behind Fetter Street, Plot 5.

Figure 2.84 St John's Street, Plot 3, house and kitchen, late 15th-16th centuries.

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ISBN:

9781789699371

1789699371

OCLC:

1257667734