Scholar’s Paper for the Scholars’ Assembly
Aelianora de Wyntringham, OL
What follows is a quick introductory outline, just showing a bit of what the paper discusses, with snide remarks and questions. Read the paper for answers and you’ll know a little about the best town in England!
- Newcastle
- Why – Hi, Aelianora (x 2)! and Cicely!
- What/Where – way up north (from London)!
- Constraints on the Archaeological and Visible/Existing Record in Newcastle
- Boom!
- Geography
- A river, plateaus, burns, sides, stairs, steps and more!
- Pre-Historic Newcastle
- Really, it was there.
- But what did it do?
- Really, it was there.
- Roman Newcastle
- I’m a gonna make a bridge, and name it after me, you plebs!
- Ok, maybe you, the soldiers, are gonna make the bridge.
- And the fort, and the vicus, the wall, the market…
- Anglo-Saxon Newcastle
- Huh?
- Burials, and right in your face, old Roman fort!
- Norman/Medieval Newcastle
- The Castle
- So that’s why it’s ‘New’ Castle
- Never mind right in your face, right on TOP of you, old Roman fort!
- Wait, when was this ‘new’ castle build? NEW? Ohhh yea, old Roman fort!
- So that’s why it’s ‘New’ Castle
- Trade
- All kinds of trade
- Wool, baaaaaa
- Wait, Coal?? that early??
- All kinds of trade
- The Quayside – Town Development
- Ballast from where?
- What’s a chare?
- Wait, when was this done??
- Housing and Land Plots
- Burgage, buuuuuurrrrrrrrrrgage
- Fill that burn, dump that midden
- Timber framed? There’s one or two, but… burn, baby, burn!
- Markets
- The Town Wall
- What happens when you ignore your wall?
- The Castle
The paper is here.
