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Hartston, Cambridgeshire |
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Aerial
view of the site under excavation, looking north-west (note Iron Age
pit zone at top left; Bronze Age ring-ditch centre right).Most of
the ditches are Anglo-Saxon. (Photo by Rog Palmer, Air
Photo Services) |
Iron
Age storage pits, prior to excavation. Over 200 were found in the
south-western part of the site, measuring up to 3 m across and 1.2 m
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Several pits contained articulated animal bone. Some were butchered
joints of meat, but others, such as this cattle skull and neonate
calf skeleton, may have had more symbolic meanings. |
Other
features contained human remains in a variety of postures - this
skeleton appears to have been thrown in casually but there were also
more formal crouched burials. |
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An
earlier landscape feature was this small Bronze Age ring-ditch. The
presence of an ancient barrow may have attracted the Iron Age
settlement. |
The
latest phase of occupation dates to the Anglo-Saxon period. This
Grubenhaus is a particularly fine
example, with stakeholes around the perimeter of the pit. |
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Buildings Work |
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Chenies Manor, Amersham |
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View
of the Tudor banqueting house and nursery from the garden before
restoration. |
Internal
view of the building, showing original mortices for floor joists and
areas of wall plastering. |
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Royal Gunpowder
Factory, Waltham Abbey |
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Gunpowder incorporating mills, where the ingredients were mixed in a
slow and careful process in a series of bays, powered from a central
engine house. |
Gunpowder press house with surviving mid-Victorian pumping machinery
and an early piece of corrugated iron roofing. |
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Saltpetre mixing and refining houses: one of the few 18th century
buildings to survive on the site. |
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Star Brewery, Ware |
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External view of the tower-type Star Brewery, Ware. |
Steel
pulley wheel used to hoist sacks of malt to the top of the brewery. |
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Baptist Church,
Bishop's Stortford |
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The
buildings of the Baptist Church, built in 1899. |
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Internal view of the 16th century roof of
Cuckman's Farm Barn. |
Exernal view showing timber framing |
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Baltic merchants marks on timbers at Thorley
Wash. The picture on the right shows a superimposed
interpretation of these marks. |
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Plan
of buildings at the Oxford Road watermill, Aylesbury. |
Millstones from Oxford
Road |
