Page 7 - John Barber's Oakham Castle and its archaeology

Contents

Oakham Castle Time Line 6
Introduction and Obituary 7
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John Lewis Barber, MA, FSA – His Memoir 9
Oakham Castle: Introduction 11
Inquisition of 1340: Para 1; Para 2; 11
Para 3; Para 4: ‘There is at Oakham a castle well walled...’ 12
Para 5: ‘One hall’ 18
(a) The exterior 19
(b) The interior 21
1. The roof 21
2. The floor 22
3. The windows 22
4. The west wall 23
5. The east wall 23
6. The columns 24
7. Loose masonry within the hall 25
8. The horseshoes 25
Para 6: ‘Four chambers’ 26
Para 7: ‘One kitchen’ 28
1. Trench No 1 28
2. Trench No 2 31
3. Trench No 3 32
Para 8: ‘Two stables and one grange for hay’ 33
Para 9: ‘One house for prisoners’ and ‘One chamber for the porter’ 33
Para 10: ‘Drawbridge with iron chains’ 35
Para 11: Additional notes on the bailey 35
Para 12: Bibliography [see p37, References and Further Reading – Eds] 35
Para 13: Postscript 35
Para 14: Jetton 36
Further thoughts 36
References and Further Reading 37
Acknowledgements 38
Appendix A. The Pottery from John Barber’s Excavation, by Deborah Sawday 39
Appendix B. Excavations at Oakham Castle, Rutland, 1953-54, by P W Gathercole 49
Peter Gathercole 65
Appendix C. Oakham Castle, by C A R Radford 66
Appendix D. Oakham Castle Excavation Reports 68
Appendix E. The Inquisition of 1340 70
Index 71

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The arrangement of the memoir into paragraphs and subsections is JLB’s own.
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