Catherine Street, Hereford
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The
Hereford Catherine Street Site - Catherine
Court is in the left background |
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A decorated bone artefact, possibly
part of a comb |
A
pair of medieval tweezers decorated with a 'shark
tooth' motif |
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Several
deep medieval pits were uncovered which contained
a good assemblage of 13th and 14th century pottery
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A
stone with a flat base and the remains of an iron attachment
set in lead in the top. This bears the inscription 'I(?) 8'
and may have been used as a counterweight |
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A
large piece of worked stone was recovered from the footing
of a wall. This has been cut, possibly to act as a support
for timber joists and may have come from the site of the nearby
Blackfriars priory. |
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This
site will be published in a volume of Archenfield Archaeology’s
Hereford City excavations to be published by Logaston
Press
A note on this project appears in the 2006 volume of the
Transactions
of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club
unpublished interim report – Excavations at 16-18
Harrison Street, Hereford: an Interim Statement
- Huw Sherlock and P J Pikes, 1999.
A copy of this report is held in the reference section of
Hereford City Library
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