Winchester Studies 5: The Brooks and other sites of medieval Winchester.
Wessex Excavation Committee has been awarded £5000 by HAT towards the cost of producing this volume. Winchester Excavations Committee’s excavations at Lower Brook Street took place from 1962 to 1971. The Roman phases and finds from the site have already been published. This volume focuses on the post-Roman and medieval periods which begin with evidence of middle Anglo-Saxon activity with a small cemetery followed by a possible timber structure and then a stone building which became the church of St Mary in Tanner Street. The excavation investigated twelve tenements, four of them from their late Anglo-Saxon origins onwards and in the other cases from the Saxo-Norman period. To the west the church of St Pancras was excavated. In their scope and scale, these excavations represented the most ambitious programme of urban archaeology in Britain at the time and one which has only rarely been matched, let alone surpassed, since then.
It is hoped to publish this book by January 2027
