Colchester Archaeological Report 1: Aspects of Anglo-Saxon and Norman Colchester
CAR Report 01: summary
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)
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
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