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REPORT ON THE EXCAVATIONS AT USK: MEDIEVAL AND LATER USK PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Paul Courtney | 261 pages | 24 Mar 1994 | University of Wales Press | 9780708312452 | English | Wales, United Kingdom Report on the Excavations at Usk: Medieval and Later Usk PDF Book The insertion of ceiling planking and bilge boards completed the inner hull, with riders being placed over some of the stringers. They have remained in the timbers through the conservation process, and will provide a useful baseline against which distortion in the timber can be checked. The vessel was found to have a notional cargo capacity of — metric tonnes, with an additional 17 tonnes of ballast. In situ ceiling planks found below the fourth run of stringers on the starboard side, and throughout the surviving port side, were usually fastened to the underlying frames with iron spike- nails. Jones, T. Some treenails had pronounced heads, while others were driven in flush with the outer surface of the planking, although none of the hull planks appear to have been rebated on the outboard face. Pat Tanner Figure Jews Lane probably formed the back lane to this north-western part of the medieval settlement, which may have expanded beyond this area since very scrappy earthworks to the north of Pen y Dre Farm. Norman Usk : the birth of a town. Pumps of the period consisted of hollowed24 out tree trunks with a cone-shaped upper or burr valve, and a lower foot valve. Roman forts existed at Gobannium and Clyro. It still stands up to 4m high and, like the curtain wall, is built of thin slabs of roughly coursed local stone. The keel tapers in section towards the forward end, and is vertically scarfed on the port side to join the stem. It was abandoned after extensive salvage, possibly following attempts at repairs to the hull. Newport Museums and Heritage Service Figure See the Monmouthshire county page for links to online records This list of parish records is intended as a rough guide to coverage only. The surfaces of the lands are well preserved, having been protected by a layer of animal hair and wood tar, along with the overlapping planking. SAL3 off-campus storage. Starboard side of the stem showing scarf to keel and rebates for hull planks. That world proves to be both rich and complex, and is brought to life in this substantial, interdisciplinary volume. These samples also contained quantities of heather, which, upon close inspection, contained flowering bodies, indicating that they had been harvested in late summer July-August. You Might Also Like Unfiltered. McGrail ed. View towards the port side. Braces Ten braces or chocks on each side of the swelling of the mast-step timber, fastened to underlying frames 20 F25—F34 with square and round oak treenails and some iron spike-nails, ran port and starboard to rebates in this first run of oak stringers Fig. In an area measuring 60m x 90m in the north-western corner of the field was the subject of a geophysical survey by Herefordshire Archaeology. Your email. In the eastern side, one lies close to the north-eastern corner of the enclosure, where a small footpath figure 3, f from the direction of Llanwonog and the Salem Baptist Chapel cuts across the rampart diagonally and leads towards the present village. The turrets do not show on the ground plan because the keep has a chamfered plinth. However, if the 1m overburden of debris recorded during excavations in the bailey is taken away it would have been high enough for a horseback rider to pass through, although still have been too narrow for any but the smallest of horse- drawn vehicles. With the exception of a single possible repair, no ceiling planks were encountered further up the starboard side than the fourth run of stringers. Documentation On site recording Archaeologists documented the position and context of artefacts, disarticulated timbers and hull remains with traditional scaled drawings, photogrammetry, photography and videography, with an eye towards documenting individual timbers in a high degree of detail at a later date. Anne Leaver. Online Resources 8. The strong and closely spaced framing would also support a more substantial vessel than that shown in the minimum reconstruction. It may even be proposed that a southern bailey was constructed over part of the medieval borough as at Ludgershall, Wiltshire Ellis , Together with the remaining parishes of Cutsdown Hundred, it lay firstly within the diocese of Llandaff and later in St Davids Houston The oven took three days to build and we fired the kiln during the Warren Excavation week. Prior to removal of any further timbers, hand drawings were completed and a photogrammetric survey was commissioned while the stringers were still in place and the framing timbers were in situ and largely exposed. With its heavy framing and stout beams, the Newport Ship was able to withstand the pounding Atlantic swells while crossing the Bay of Biscay. List of figures and concordance. Help Need help? It is evident, from the modern topography that the road was once much wider than it is now and has been encroached upon, creating long, thin plots of land alongside it. Substantial amounts of waste leather were also found in the bow of the vessel, but this may represent waste leather produced by a shoemaker or cobbler and dumped inside the vessel after it came to rest in Newport. Report on the Excavations at Usk: Medieval and Later Usk Writer During the Roman period Ostorius Scapula led a campaign against the tribes occupying Herefordshire hillforts and took Roman rule west as far as Usk, Hay-on-Wye and Leintwardine. Whatever your needs, please get in touch to see how we can help you? Westerdahl ed. Slighting of castles was not confined to the period of conflict. These were annotated with spot heights relating levels to temporary bench marks with known heights relative to Ordnance Datum OD—the reference level for land mapping in the United Kingdom. The aftermost riders were substantial, rebated over the stringers to ensure extensive faying surfaces with the upper faces of the adjacent framing timbers. Both Nigel Nayling the scarf. Since its discovery in , the remains of the mid 15th-century clinker built Newport Medieval Ship have been excavated, cleaned, documented, modelled, and are now midway through conservation treatment. Context The ship was found close to the present right bank of the highly tidal River Usk, downstream from both the medieval castle and the Town Pill—a formerly large. The items appear to be primarily for use on board the vessel, as opposed to cargo. This was an iterative process that continuously referred back to and relied upon the physical model, using it as a check against creating modifications in the digital reconstruction that were impossible in the physical one. Once lifted, planks were placed on large custom-built pallets which could be craned on to waiting lorries. The archaeological remains at Longtown consist of a sub-square enclosure with a large motte superimposed upon its north-west corner. In a few instances the borough was located inside the castle bailey, but it was generally close by. During the mid 15th century, trade between England and Iberia was regular and signifi2. Here a deserted medieval village is located beneath the eroding by sea windblown sand. Cargo and diet Figure There is considerable variation in scantlings between different stringers and even within a single stringer. In the Sheriff of Hereford was ordered to garrison it with 30 men. The survey recorded areas of high resistance associated with one building platform Figure 10, d and also found the field bank Figure 10, c to contain buried stone Hoverd Nevertheless, it is fairly certain that the outer gate was not on the same alignment as the entrance to the inner bailey since the enclosure rampart immediately opposite it shows no indication of ever having been breached. In practice, this meant editing out details such as wood grain and small cracks and reducing the number of points in each file. Laser scanning was dropped once it was realized that the resulting point cloud lacked any interpretation, and required extensive post-processing of the data. It was abandoned after extensive salvage, possibly following attempts at repairs to the hull. However, subsequent modelling has shown that the keel was flat. This does not, however, seem likely. IJNA 9. Tree-ring analysis of some of these timbers led to the cross-matching of five unrebated tingles which were dated against a range of British and one Irish chronologies. This phase of excavation allowed limited examination of the stratigraphic sequence within the inlet between the contemporary riverbank and the starboard side of the ship. It describes the medieval and post-medieval remains excavated in the town of Usk. More than a thousand animal and fish bones, and numerous shellfish, were recovered. The re-use of earlier earthworks for Norman castles was a common practice and there are numerous examples eg see Platt , 4. Their date is uncertain, but judging by their appearance and the fact that no buildings are featured here on 18th- and 19th-century maps, they are likely to be of an early period and could well be medieval. After some 4 experimentation, the most efficient and least damaging technique comprised driving sacrificial softwood wedges between the framing timbers and the hull planks sufficient to allow access with a handsaw to cut each treenail. Given the depth of overburden which has accumulated over the medieval deposits in the baileys above p12 , it is likely that these features are the remains of later farm buildings.