With major contributions from Umberto Albarella, Mark Beech, Niall Donald, Alison Goodall, Julia Huddle, Alison Locker, Irena Lentowicz, Marta Moreno García, Quita Mould, Jacqui Mulville, Peter Murphy, Andy Shelley and Margot Tillyard.
In the 1980s work began on construction of the vast underground Castle Mall shopping centre in Norwich. The associated archaeological excavation was one of the largest of its kind in northern Europe, designed to investigate not only the castle bailey but also pre-Conquest settlement and, for the post-Conquest period, areas of the surrounding medieval city.
The report describes evidence for late Saxon streets, houses and graveyards; the developing fortifications of an urban castle established before 1100; gradual encroachment by the townspeople into the castle precinct after the 13th century; documentation relating to the ownership and development of properties within the Castle Fee; crafts and industries associated with these plots — notably bell-founding; a late medieval assemblage of great significance from the barbican well including ironwork, leather waste, bird and animal bone; and sizeable finds assemblages resulting from the steady infilling of castle ditches with domestic and commercial refuse.
Author(s): Elizabeth Shepherd Popescu (ed.)
Series: East Anglian Archaeology, 132
Publisher: Historic Environment, Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 616
City: Dereham
Chapter 8. Castle Decline and City Encroachment (c.1345 to mid/late 16th century) 541
Chapter 9. The Barbican Well Assemblage (late 14th to early 16th century) 654
Chapter 10. The Second City (late 16th to 18th century) 746
Chapter 11. Cattle Market to Castle Mall (19th to 20th century) 921
Chapter 12. The Changing Castle 958
Chapter 13. Trade, Industry, Technology and Economy 994
Chapter 14. General Discussion and Conclusions 1054
Bibliography 1077
Index 1107
