Medieval Britain and Ireland — fieldwork highlights in 2019 : 'Excavations in the Northern Quarter of medieval Coventry'

Miller, IF; Radford, A

Abstract

Following an initial programme of archaeological evaluation trenching that confirmed the presence of extensive and significant below-ground remains across the site of the former Coventry Evening Telegraph complex, full excavation of five areas was carried out by Salford Archaeology between January and March 2019.3 The excavation site lay in the northern part of Coventry city centre, comprising an area of 4,250 sq m bounded by Lamb Street, Bishop Street, Corporation Street and Chapel Street. Besides a single worked flint of late Mesolithic/early Neolithic date and a sherd of Roman pottery (both recovered from post-Conquest deposits), the archaeological record was dominated by remains deriving from seemingly continuous site activity between the late 11th and the 17th centuries. Three broad phases of activity were recognised across this timespan, plus two later phases representing occupation during the 18th and 19th centuries,
and redevelopment in the 20th century.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 14, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Dec 22, 2020
• Publication Date: Dec 22, 2020
• Deposit Date: Feb 2, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 22, 2022
• Journal: Medieval Archaeology
• Print ISSN: 0076-6097
• Electronic ISSN: 1745-817X
• Publisher: Routledge
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 378-384
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2020.1835278
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2020.1835278
• Related Public URLs: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymed20/current
• Additional Information: Access Information : This section forms part of a larger article in the journal. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Medieval Archaeology on 22nd December 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00766097.2020.1835278.