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Archaeology and the standing fabric: recent studies at Lichfield Cathedral

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Warwick Rodwell
Warwick Rodwell*
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The Old Vicarage, Stockhil Road, Downside, Chilcompton, Somerset BA3 4JQ
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With the great 19th-century restorations of British cathedrals went the first great campaigns of cathedral archaeology. British cathedrals are, characteristically, multiperiod structures where major elements of earlier phases have been swallowed into a later-medieval or post-medieval fabric. So an important element in cathedral studies in the last century was the close observation of clues within the standing building. It remains a major element, in which new methods like the oak dendrochronology for medieval England run alongside that oldest archaeological tool, the observant eye.

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Antiquity , Volume 63 , Issue 239 , June 1989 , pp. 281 - 294
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1989

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