دانلود کتاب Battle Abbey: The Eastern Range and the Excavations of 1978-80

With contributions by M. Archibald, R. I. Charleston, J. Geddes, R. Halsey, J. Kerr, A. Locker, A. D. F. Streeten, R. Warmington, N. J. Armes, D. R. Atkinson, J. Bayley, J. G. Coad, V. J. Coad, B. M. A. Ellis, M. A. Girling, M. Hutchinson, B. Knight, C. A. Keepax, G. Lawson and P. J. Paradine.

Ebook (PDF) published 2012.

Battle Abbey, founded by William the Conqueror himself for his deliverance, was one of the greater abbeys of medieval England. This volume provides an account of the historical and architectural development of this great monastery, and a report on the recent excavations there. The latter saw the complete excavation of the chapter house and reredorter, and established a sequence of development from the hillside of the battle of Hastings, through the Norman abbey and its additions, to the great thirteenth-century rebuilding, continued late medieval activity and the post-dissolution periods of decay and revival. The excavations produced a wide range of finds. These included important sequences of pottery and roof tile; material that throws light on the design, glazing and flooring of the monastic buildings; and an extensive collection of objects of bone, lead, copper alloy, iron and glass. Many of these finds came from a rich Dissolution rubbish dump.