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> steve boxley wrote:
> All,
>    We are currently excavating a site in Virginia that in layout is
> looking like a medieval domestic enclosure!  It contains many post set
> structures around the inside perimeter of a palisade, with a smaller
> palisade within.  It is similiar, but on a smaller scale, to the South
> Witham (Lincs.) site illustrated in Colin Platt's "Medieval England"
> book(page 61).  It dates to the mid-to-late 17th century.  I am wondering
> if there are any 17th-century examples of this type of domestic enclosure
> in Britain.  Yes, I know there were no Indians there!
>    Also, as a side note, can anyone recommend a good
> social/historical/archaeological book on medieval England, along the
> lines of Platt's book.  There is a fairly limited supply at the local
> book store over here across "the pond".  And I hate to buy a book sight
> unseen, I have gotten too many very dry social theory type books that
> way.  Malthus was enough for me.  Thanks.
>
 
 
Steve-
 
I would contact Charlie Hodges. I believe he is still in the grad program
at William and Mary. He has been looking into a comparison of enclosed
"bonns" (??) in  N. Ireland and Virginia. I would also like to hear more
about this project. Please send me info off list.
 
Thanks,
 
Kevin M. Bartoy
Archaeological Research Facility
Department of Anthropology
University of California at Berkeley