1st Edition

Excavations at the Austin Friary, Hull, Yorkshire, 1994 and 1999, Part 2 The Fabric and the Material Culture

Edited By D. H. Evans, Lisa M. Wastling Copyright 2026
354 Pages 67 Color & 136 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

354 Pages 67 Color & 136 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

354 Pages 67 Color & 136 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Excavations at the Austin Friary, Hull, Yorkshire, 1994 and 1999, Part 2, details the excavations of the Austin Friary in Hull, a house founded in 1316/17 and surrendered to the Crown in 1539. This volume concentrates on the material culture recovered during the excavations. The site yielded a nationally significant group of medieval coffins, all but one of which were made of imported Baltic... Read more

Preface

List of figures

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Summary

Abbreviations

1 Introduction, by D H Evans

2 Ceramic building materials

3 Stone and plaster

4 The window glass and lead came, by Lisa M Wastling

5 A summary of the pottery, by D H Evans, with contributions by the late J G Watkins, Peter Didsbury and Lisa M Wastling

6 Metal finds

7 Other artefacts

8 Textiles and leather

9 The wood technology of the oak coffins, by the late Richard Darrah

10 Tree-ring analysis and species identification of the timbers excavated, by Ian Tyers

11 An overview of the cultural material assemblage from the Hull Austin Friary and the other structures on this development site, by D H Evans

Bibliography

Index

Biography

D H Evans is a former archaeologist who worked full-time for over 40 years in British archaeology. During that period, he published over 100 books and articles, with many concentrating on medieval and post-medieval studies.