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converted to use as an animal byre in the late 18 th /early 19 th century. Access here would have been through the eastern passage which led into the tunnel from the church and to the dormitory. Later on, the whole passageway was blocked in and no longer in use. Certainly these blockings indicate active maintenance of the buildings of some nature and they were not just left as ruins. The school room was not re-used at all but simply left as a ruin, and had probably completely collapsed in, while the infirmary seems to have been re-used, but not for keeping animals but perhaps as a store room. This had been paved over with loose flagstones, like the bishop’s room, but unlike that, did not have the same accumulation of animal dung. The only problematic aspect to this arrangement lies with the phasing of the school room and dormitory against the rest of the site. There were no stratigraphic links (as yet) between the eastern and western sides of the area because of truncation by the haybarn, and unlike the western side, all the finds in the occupation and abandonment deposits of the school rooms were exclusively 18 th century. One major consideration is that the upper/latest phases of the schoolrooms have been completely truncated and what was excavated was an earlier phase. Traces of later walls over the northern end of the school room may just be the remains of such later phase. Below are more detailed descriptions of each of the rooms and other components of the site; the initials of the main excavator are placed in the entitlement, as their notes and records provided the main source of interpretations presented here. Plate I. View of the Site after excavation of the rooms 21
Room [15] (Bishop´s Inner Chambers; OV) Only a part/half of the room fell within the area of excavation, but it was at least 3m long (aligned north-west/south-east), and 3.8m wide originally. Lying at the northern edge of the area on the higher ground, it had suffered most from truncation and its walls only survived to a height of c. 0.30m at the south and 0.10m on the north. There was no access from this room to the corridor, to which it is skew, although there is possibly an access (blocked in) south to room [55] just on the edge of the excavation area. This should be resolved next season. A probable drain runs centrally along the length of the room (eastwest), marked by large flagstones, associated with a floor layer of smaller flagstones and decomposed organic matter/hay [145]. Neither of these were excavated and it is uncertain whether they represent a sub-(wooden) floor layer or later re-use – it was not a very compacted surface. Above this and fully excavated however, was a similarly unstable layer of slabs [101] with more decomposed organic material [093] having accumulated around and over them including hay, twigs and wood chips in three major lenses. It is possible these represent later re-use of the room as hay storage, with stones laid to keep the floor dry. Definite re-use is marked by a major alteration to the room by narrowing its width to 2.8m (north-south) when a new northern wall is constructed [109]. The floor level associated with this modification was in many ways similar to those below: periodic laying of stone slabs [087] with accumulating organic matter [065], but this time primarily of decomposed animal dung and ash lenses. More compact than the earlier floors, at this time the room was almost certainly used to house livestock. Although the accumulating deposits differ between the two phases, the same methods of flooring seem to have been used: stone slabs. It is probable that the floor layers (or absence of them – see discussion of other rooms below) associated with the primary use of the room as the Bishop´s chambers lie below the unexcavated layer [145], which, with those layers above, represent initial re-use of the room as a hay store, and then, as the room is narrowed and the later floor layers testify, was converted to an animal byre. 22
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Page 3 and 4: TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction .
Page 5 and 6: LIST OF PLATES Plate I. View of the
Page 7 and 8: Between 1954 and 1958, the first pr
Page 9 and 10: structures. Thereafter, excavation
Page 11 and 12: The project is a cooperation betwee
Page 13 and 14: 76 m 75 m 74 m 73 m 72 m 71 m 70 m
Page 15 and 16: is also suggested that a topographi
Page 17 and 18: I I I I I I I V c m S k á l h o l
Page 19 and 20: Þrátt fyrir að gjóskulög frá
Page 21 and 22: productivity. Soil accumulation on
Page 23 and 24: EXCAVATION Excavation occurred at t
Page 25: The buildings basically consisted o
Page 29 and 30: Abandonment of the building is mark
Page 31 and 32: Room [127] (Unknown Annexe; MS) Unm
Page 33 and 34: sporadically used to dump hearth wa
Page 35 and 36: Rector´s chambers, and after 1781,
Page 37 and 38: earthquake and re-location of the s
Page 39 and 40: There is little doubt this feature
Page 41 and 42: much earlier. Curiously though, the
Page 43 and 44: Figure 6. Phasing of School Rooms 8
Page 45 and 46: On the southern side of the haybarn
Page 47 and 48: shelters in the 19 th century seems
Page 49 and 50: 3. FINDS The amount of finds recove
Page 51 and 52: CERAMIC Pottery A rapid assessment
Page 53 and 54: glazed earthenwares (faience) were
Page 55 and 56: Bearing in mind that the rooms on t
Page 57 and 58: with incomplete markings: Ger[many]
Page 59 and 60: lown as in the 18 th century exampl
Page 61 and 62: lines. There was also a fine exampl
Page 63 and 64: Other A few rarer metal types were
Page 65 and 66: () which has a flaw running almost
Page 67 and 68: comes fairly close and is a rare si
Page 69 and 70: 4. DISCUSSION THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PO
Page 71 and 72: communities may have introduced new
Page 73 and 74: practices, a general hypothesis tha
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FINDS FindsNo UnitNo BoxNo Object M
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6. REFERENCES Adderley, W.P., Simps
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Horsley, T., (1999). ‘A prelimina
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