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Excavations at Portchester Castle, Hants, 1963–5. Second Interim Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Barry Cunliffe
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The present series of excavations at Portchester Castle have continued annually since they began in 1961. The first part of this work, covering the period from 1961 to Easter 1963, having already been described, it is the purpose of the present report to summarize the results obtained since then. In June 1963, following the demolition of the custodian's house, Mr. A. B. Norton cut a section through the ditch system of the Roman fort. In the following Easter the outer earthwork was examined and a trial area excavated within the fort in order to study the nature of the stratigraphy and to examine the particular problems involved in excavating the interior. Once the information had been obtained area excavation began in the Easter of 1965. At the same time a site outside the north wall of the fort was examined for the Ministry of Public Building and Works prior to the erection of a public lavatory and changing-rooms; limited trenching was also carried out in the Inner Bailey. The work was undertaken with the active cooperation of the Ministry of Public Building and Works and was financed by grants from the Society of Antiquaries, the Libraries and Museum Committee of the Portsmouth City Council, the Haverfield Trustees, the Joint Archaeological Committee, and by several private donations.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , March 1966 , pp. 39 - 49
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1966

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page 39 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xliii (1963), 218–27Google Scholar.

page 39 note 2 I would like to express my thanks to the large number of people, many of them students from the University of Bristol, who took part in the work, and in particular to Mr. D. B. Baker, B.A., whose photographs illustrate this report. Mr. R. Sanders and other members of the castle maintenance staff offered willing assistance at all times.

page 39 note 3 The recutting may well be the result of work on the ditches which took place in 1193 (Pipe Roll 5 Ric. 1. Pipe Roll Soc. N.S. 3, 133). The next reference, in 1326, is too late to explain the early pottery in the ditch fill.

page 41 note 1 Williams-Freeman, Field Archaeology as Illustrated by Hampshire (1914), 394.

page 41 note 2 Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England (1947), p. 262.

page 41 note 3 Colvin, The King's Works (1963), p. 788.

page 43 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xliii (1963), 276Google Scholar.

page 45 note 1 Buildings of this type are well known on the Continent and have been found in this country on several sites, including Old Windsor (information from Dr. B. Hope-Taylor).

page 47 note 1 P.R.O. Adm/98/252.

page 47 note 2 Rigold, Portchester Castle (1965).

page 49 note 1 In 1183, 1191–2, 1203–4, 1211, and 1229 and many more after 1256.

page 49 note 2 P.R.O. Cal. Lib. R 1226–32, 157.

page 49 note 3 Pipe Roll 13 John: Pipe Roll Soc. N.S. 28, 84.