The Archaeology of Worcester in 20 Digs

James Dinn

• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781445694030
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Photography

Worcester is one of England's great historic cities, with a history of occupation that goes back to the Iron Age. It was a Roman ironworking and industrial centre, though some houses were decorated with mosaics or painted wall plaster. From AD 680, Worcester was the ecclesiastical centre of the Hwicce and later a defended Mercian burh. The medieval city had many parish churches and monasteries, a castle and city walls, and a stone bridge across the River Severn. It was refortified in the Civil War, and the first and last battles of the war were fought here. More recently, the city has been an important centre for the production of porcelain.

The Archaeology of Worcester in 20 Digs takes the reader on a journey through a selection of the most ground-breaking and unusual archaeological discoveries made in the city.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Introduction
• Dig 1 Worcester Castle’s Motte (1833–40s)
• Dig 2 Little Fish Street and Warmstry Slip (1957–59)
• Dig 3 Lich Street (1965–66)
• Dig 4 Broad Street (1967–68) and Blackfriars (1985–86)
• Dig 5 City Walls Road (1967–76)
• Dig 6 Sidbury and the Vue Cinema Site (1976–77 and 1997–2000)
• Dig 7 Worcester Cathedral (1981–91)
• Dig 8 The Deansway Excavation Project (1988–89)
• Dig 9 City Arcade (1997–98)
• Dig 10 Sites in Castle Street (1998–2000)
• Dig 11 Park & Ride (Perdiswell, 2000)
• Dig 12 Archaeology at the Royal Worcester Porcelain Factory (2004–18)
• Dig 13 Newport Street (2003–05)
• Dig 14 The Commandery (2005–06)
• Dig 15 The University of Worcester City Campus (2007–12)
• Dig 16 Swanpool Walk, St John’s (2007–08)
• Dig 17 King’s SPACE and Worcester Castle (2007–12)
• Dig 18 The Hive and The Butts (2006–11)
• Dig 19 St Martin’s Quarter (2009–12)
• Dig 20 The New Cathedral Square (2015)
• Further Reading
• Acknowledgements