Norwich Castle: Excavations and Historical Survey, 1987-98. Part III: A Zooarchaeological Study 3

Illustrations by David Dobson. Photographs by Graham Norrie, Gwil Owen and David Wicks. In the 1980s work began on construction of the vast underground Castle Mall shopping centre in Norwich. The associated archaeological excavation was one of the largest of its kind in northern Europe, designed to investigate not only the castle bailey but also pre-Conquest settlement and, for the post-Conquest period, areas of the surrounding medieval city. Although Parts I and II both contain summary accounts of the faunal remains, setting them into their wider context and including additional information on craft activities, the scale of the data made publication of a separate and more specialised report on the faunal remains desirable and this is published here as Part III. In the 1980s, work began on construction of the vast underground Castle Mall shopping centre in Norwich. The associated archaeological excavation was one of the largest of its kind in northern Europe, designed to investigate not only the castle bailey but also pre-Conquest settlement and, for the post-Conquest period, areas of the surrounding medieval city. The report describes evidence for late Saxon streets, houses and graveyards; the developing fortifications of an urban castle established before 1100; gradual encroachment by the townspeople into the castle precinct after the 13th century; documentation relating to the ownership and development of properties within the Castle Fee; crafts and industries associated with these plots - notably bell-founding; a late medieval assemblage of great significance from the barbican well including ironwork, leather waste, bird and animal bone; and sizeable finds assemblages resulting from the steady infilling of castle ditches with domestic and commercial refuse. List of Plates vi List of Figures vii List of Tables ix Abbreviations xi Acknowledgements xi Contributors xi Summary xii Chapter 1. General Introduction, by Elizabeth Shepherd Popescu 1 Chapter 2. Archaeological and Historical Summary 7 Chapter 3. Mammal and Bird Bone from Castle Mall (Site 777N), excluding the Barbican Well, by Umberto Albarella, Mark Beech and Jacqui Mulville 14 Chapter 4. Mammal and Bird Bone from the BarbicanWell (mid/late 15th to early 16th centuries) (Site 777N), by Marta Moreno García 95 Chapter 5. Fish Bone from Castle Mall (Site 777N), by Alison Locker 131 Chapter 6. Mammal, Bird and Fish Bone from Golden Ball Street (Site 26496N), by Julie Curl 147 Chapter 7. General Discussion and Conclusions, by Jacqui Mulville 154 Appendix 1: Diagnostic Zones (Barbican Well) 160 Bibliography 161 Index, by Ann Hudson 169 pt. 1. Anglo-Saxon to c. 1345 pt. 2. c. 1345 to modern / by Elizabeth Shepherd Popescu ; with major contributions from Umberto Albarella ... [et al.] ; and contributions from Sue Anderson ... [et al.] pt. 3. A zooarchaeological study / by Umberto Albarella ... [et al.] pt. 4. People and property in the documentary record / by Margot Tillyard ... [et al.]. Appendices, illustrations, tables of pts. 1-4 on CD-ROM in pocket at end of pt. 2