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St Mary’s Abbey and The King’s Manor, York

The Pictorial Evidence

Barbara Wilson and Frances Mee

St Mary’s was the foremost Benedictine Abbey in the North of England.

St Mary's coverAfter the dissolution of the monasteries the Abbot’s Lodging, now known as the King’s Manor, became headquarters of the King’s Council in the North; it is now part of the University of York.

Recording and Analysing Graveyards

by Harold Mytum

Recording graveyards cover This book aims to help everyone appreciate graveyards, cemeteries, and their monuments, but it is also intended to inspire and encourage action in the form of recording and analysis.

Historic Fraserburgh

Archaeology and Development

RD Oram, PF Martin, CA McKean, T Neighbour, A Cathcart

This survey gives an accessible and broad-ranging synthesis of the history and archaeology of Fraserburgh, and aims to inform conservation guidance for future development.

Historic Fraserburgh Situated on an exposed headland on the north-east coast of Scotland, the historic burgh of Fraserburgh, dating from the late sixteenth century, is the earliest of Scotland’s ‘new towns’. It was unique for the time in being laid out on a grid, unlike other new towns of the period such as neighbouring Peterhead. The town’s origins lie in the medieval settlements of Faithlie and Broadsea down by the shore, but it takes it name from the landowner: it was Fraser’s broch (burgh). The new town was laid out on top of a headland, with the principal thoroughfare, Broad Street, tightly closed at each end to shelter from the wind.

Anglian Settlement at 46–54 Fishergate

by R Kemp

AY7/1 Kemp cover In 1985–6 excavations at Fishergate gave archaeologists the first glimpse of 7–9th century Eorforwic, York. The excavations revealed this settlement to be well ordered and carefully laid out with trading links stretching as far as the Rhineland and Northern France.

Info: 114pp, 24 illustrations
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