Archaeology Magazine - December 1964 - 63

Underwater Archaeology
Conference
The SecondConferenceon Underwater Archaeologywill be held in
Toronto April 15-17, 1965. The
Royal Ontario Museum will be the
host, with the Council of Underwater Archaeology as co-sponsor.
Reports are expected on new developments for underwater work,
such as the rubidium magnetometer
and stereophotography,as well as
accounts of fresh investigations in
the Old and New Worlds and discussionsof research in fields which
affect archaeology,such as marine
biology (coral dating and teredo
activity), geology (site inundation)
and advancesin dating glass.
Those who are interested in any
aspect of underwater archaeology
are invited to attend and to present
papers. Information may be obtained from John Huston, Council
of Underwater Archaeology, 2647
Pierce Street, San Francisco, California 94123 (program) or A. D.
Tushingham, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 5, Canada (attendance and local arrangements).
Winchester Excavations
More than sixty students and
faculty from fifteen American colleges and universities were among
the nearly two hundred volunteers
working on the excavation of the
mediaeval city of Winchester in
England this past summer. This
fourth season of excavation organized by the Winchester Excavation
Committee lasted ten weeks (June
29-September6) and was under the
directionof Martin Biddle, Lecturer
in History at the University of Exeter. The American participants
were selected by Duke University
and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, which, together
with the American Council of
Learned Societies,made a grant enabling the excavations to be more
than double the size of those undertaken in previous seasons.
Work was carried out at seven
sites in the city, the largest of
which were on the Cathedral Green
and on Lower Brook Street. Just to
the north of the nave of the present
cathedral the foundations of the
nave of its tenth-century predecessor were traced, and within them
was discovered the site of what
may have been its baptistery. It is

now clear that the western end of
sons will completethe excavationof
this church was an unusual struc- one whole side of Lower Brook
ture, and that the whole building Street extending from the High
was far larger than had been sup- Street to the mediaeval wall.
Other sites being dug are Wolveposed. Two richly decorated silver
gilt ornaments were found in the sey, the ruined mediaeval palace
filling of one of the mediaeval of the bishops of Winchester, and
trenches made to rob the stone of the Saxon cathedral (in the souththe foundations. Their location sug- east), the Norman royal castle and
gests that they were buried at the the structures preceding it (in the
same date and that they orna- southwest) and three small sites in
mented the same belt or harness, the northwest part of the city.
but the style of one suggests a
The work is being planned to deninth-century date while the other scribe and record exactly the charappears to be of the eleventh cen- acter and growth of the defenses,
tury. At the very end of the season, houses and public buildings of Rothe mold for one of the tenth-cen- man, mediaeval and early modern
tury bells was uncovered in the Winchester. Extensive excavation is
floor of the nave, where the bell possible because the city is underwas cast. Parts of the plan and the going urban renewal and the city
foundations of the altar of the council,private landowners and the
seventh-century predecessor of the cathedral authorities are all enthutenth-century church were also dis- siastic supporters of the work of
covered.
the Excavations Committee.
In Lower Brook Street the plans
Those who would like informaand substantial remains of eight tion about the plans for future seamediaeval houses were revealed in sons may write Professor John M.
an excavation covering nearly 7000 Schnorrenberg,Department of Art,
square feet. Considerable remains University of North Carolina,
of early, narrow wooden houses, Chapel Hill, N. C.
their timbers preserved by the
dampness of the site, were uncov- Christian
Archaeology Congress
ered beneath their larger stone successors.The building history of the
A preliminary announcement of
site is complicatedand will be fully the Vllth International Congress
understood only when the extensive for Christian Archaeologyhas been
tenement records in the city ar- issued. For the Congress,which will
chives can be fully studied and re- be held in Trier, Germany, Septemlated to the plan of the site. An- ber 5-11, 1965, the theme will be:
other season's excavation should The Ruling House and Christian
make this possible, since it should Art in the Fourth Century. Those
uncover the church known to have interested in obtaining further inbeen on this street. Descriptions of formation may write to the German
houses in deeds relate them to each ArchaeologicalInstitute,Peter-Lenné
other and to the church. Future sea- Str. 28-30, 1 Berlin 33 (Dahlem).

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