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| Harston, Cambridgeshire |
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| Aerial view of the site under excavation, looking north-west (note Iron
Age pit zone at top left; Bronze Age ring-ditch centre right).Most of the ditches are
Anglo-Saxon. (Photo by Rog Palmer, Air Photo Services) |
Iron Age storage pits, prior to excavation.
Over 200 were found in the south-western part of the site, measuring up to 3 m across and
1.2 m deep.
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| Several pits contained articulated animal bone.
Some were butchered
joints of meat, but others, such as this cattle skull and neonate
calf skeleton, may have had more symbolic meanings.
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Other features contained human remains in a
variety of postures - this skeleton appears to have been thrown in casually but there were
also more formal crouched burials.
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| An earlier landscape feature was this small Bronze Age ring-ditch.
The presence of an ancient barrow may have attracted the Iron Age
settlement. |
The latest phase of occupation dates to the
Anglo-Saxon period. This Grubenhaus is a particularly fine
example, with stakeholes around the perimeter of the pit.
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Buildings
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| Chenies Manor, Amersham |
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| View of the Tudor banqueting house and nursery from the garden before
restoration. |
Internal view of the building, showing
original mortices for floor joists and areas of wall plastering.
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| Royal Gunpowder
Factory, Waltham Abbey |
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| Gunpowder incorporating mills, where the ingredients were mixed in a
slow and careful process in a series of bays, powered from a central engine house. |
Gunpowder press house with surviving
mid-Victorian pumping machinery and an early piece of corrugated iron roofing.
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Saltpetre mixing and refining houses: one of the few 18th century
buildings to survive on the site. |
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Star Brewery, Ware |
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| External view of the tower-type Star Brewery, Ware. |
Steel pulley wheel
used to hoist sacks of malt to the top of the brewery. |
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Baptist Church, Bishop's Stortford |
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The buildings of the Baptist Church, built in 1899.
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Internal view of the 16th century roof of Cuckman's Farm
Barn. |
Exernal view showing timber framing
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| Baltic merchants marks on timbers at Thorley Wash. The picture on the right shows a superimposed
interpretation of these marks. |
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Plan of buildings at the Oxford Road watermill, Aylesbury. |
Millstones from Oxford Road
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