Excavation of a pit at 16 Tunsgate, Guildford, Surrey, 1991

Author

Fryer, Kevin; Shelley, Andrea

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Post-medieval archaeology. 1997, Vol. 31, 139-230, pl. 1-8, 48 ill. (8 col.), maps, plans

ISSN

0079-4236

Abstract (en)

The significance of the assemblage of artefacts found in the pit lies in its size and its coherence as a single, chronologically uncontaminated and sealed deposit. The finds form a discrete group of ceramics, glass, clay pipes and organic remains dating from ca.1650-1714, and deposited ca.1702-1714. Many of the vessels after reconstruction proved to be complete, or almost so. Because of the location of the site the artefacts must either have come from the Tun Inn or from a property nearby belonging to the owner of the Tun Inn. The end of the 17th c. and the beginning of the 18th c. is a particularly interesting period for ceramic and glass studies and the finds from 16 Tunsgate reflect this. The assemblage contains previously unknown examples of the work of John Dwight and George Ravenscroft, a soda glass with a hitherto unknown type of seal, the largest group of mould-blown cristallo beakers so far found in the United Kingdom or North America and a unique group of animal remains that provide a shapshot of inn food in the early 18th c.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- United Kingdom
• Excavations
• Great Britain
• Tunsgate, 16||Guildford (GBR)
• Ceramics
• Glass (objects)
• Pipes (tobacco)
• Clay
• Archaeological finds
• Tun Inn||Guildford (GBR)
• Inns
• Dwight, John, ca.1636-1703
• Ravenscroft, George, ca.1618-1681
• 1600-1800

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Royaume-Uni
• Fouilles
• Grande-Bretagne
• Tunsgate, 16||Guildford (GBR)
• Céramique
• Verre
• Pipe
• Argile
• Trouvaille
• Tun Inn||Guildford (GBR)
• Auberge
• Dwight, John, v.1636-1703
• Ravenscroft, George, v.1618-1681
• 1600-1800

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19990701-00209752

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