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40 building a small latrine pit was discovered, suggesting that the structure was an early hall. Lying against and outside of the north wall of the L - Building were a series of dumped layers containing much pottery and animal bone, which have every appearance of being occupation debris from that building. Sealing these deposits, and at the same level as the top of the surviving L - Building walls, was a heavy rubble spread, perhaps from the démolition of the upper levels of the L - Building. Professor Jope's excavations established that this building was partly sealed by the mid-12th century first floor hall. On the surface of the site a slight earthwork can be seen separating the inner and outer bailles; excavation proved this to be the remnant of what must have been a very much larger rampart the upper parts of which had been removed during later medieval building activities. This rampart lay directly on the primary turf and against the west end of the L - Building. The finds from within and beneath this rampart indicate that it was built at the end of the llth or early in the 12th century, and consequently proves that the L - Building is at least as early. Although only a short section of the rampart was excavated, it seems probable that it marked the original division of the primary undifferentiated castle enclosure into an inner and outer bailey. The construction of the stone building (260) across the line of this rampart, which was in turn cut by the mid-12th century curtain wall, suggests that the earthwork was a temporary expedient, perhaps dictated by some emergency such as the invasion of Duke Robert in 1101 or the White Ship disaster of 1120. The stone building (260), with its associated mortar, floor, formed the north-east corner of a structure located outside of the curtain wall by E.M. Jope. This structure clearly pre-dated the mid-12th century curtain wall and must have been out of use by the time the curtain wall was built. However, the portion within the line of the curtain wall continued in use well into the 13th century and appears to have been used as an ante-chamber to the ground floor entrance to the first floor hall. The next detectable event in the archaeological record was the building of the first stone defences, which consisted of the curtain wall with a simple entrance. Due to extensive stone robbing only the pitched stone footings of the curtain wall survived, these were some 0.8m deep and 2m wide. Towards the end of the 12th century an approximately rectangular gatehouse was built straddling the original entrance, and a new entrance was pierced through the curtain wall to the north of the gatehouse. At some time in the 13th century the gatehouse was modified to accommodate a water cistern, and the whole structure fell into disuse at the end of that century. The interior of the gatehouse was excavated by E.M. Jope (see note 1) and contained a mortar floor and a well. During the 13th and 14th centuries complexes of stone buildings (and buildings with stone footings) were erected. The largest of these appears to have been a 13th century replacement for the first floor hall. The remaining structures were all butted on to this major structure, and represent later sub-divisions and additions to it, of the nature
41 of store and other out-houses, one may have been a garderobe tower. All appear to belong to the period of the castle's decline in the later 13th and 14th centuries. Finally, a widespread robbing of all the masonry structures left little that was originally above ground. The finds suggest a major late 14th century demolition phase though stone robbing continued long after that date. The general site plan, (Fig.13), shows the basic layout of all the main features and structures found during all the excavations at Deddington Castle. The structures excavated in 1977, 1978 and 1979 are indicated within the excavation trenches, the remaining structures are those discovered during the course of E.M. Jope's excavations. The most important of these are the hall, solar, and chapel, located to the south of the gatehouse, all dating to the 12th and 13th centuries. The northern part of the inner bailey was occupied by a sequence of rather poorer and later buildings, which may be related to the activities of the Appletree family who leased the Castle and its manor after 1364 (see note 3). In addition to the extensive structural evidence a considerable quantity of pottery and other artefacts were recovered. The quantity of pottery recovered and the quality of the stratigraphy has enabled a very detailed chronological pottery sequence to be developed, a sequence which extends from the mid-llth century to the later 14th century. The changing pattern of the occurrence and frequency of various pottery types at this site also throws interesting light on the marketing pattern of medieval pottery through this period. References 1. Jope, E.M. and Threlfall, R.I., 1946/7 'Recent Medieval Finds in the Oxford District' Oxoniensia 11/12 (1946/7) 165-171; and Ivens, R.J. Unpublished Queen's University of Belfast Ph.D. thesis 1981. I would like to thank Professor Jope for allowing me to consult his excavation records which have been of invaluable help in interpreting the results of my excavations. 2. Le Maho, J. 1976 'L'apparition de Seigneuries chatelaines dans le Grand-Caux a l'epoques ducales' Archaeologie Medievale 6 (1976) 5-148, especially 83-107. 3. Ivens, R.J. the English 198 'The History of Deddington Castle, Oxfordshire and Honour of Odo of Bayeux'. 4. Ivens, R.J. 198 'De Arte de Venandi cum Avibus: an archaeological and historical introduction.
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94 (5) AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL
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