Reference code: GB-1272-DURMA.1985.64.Archive
Title: Excavation records:
Bearpark
Dates of creation: 1980-1984
Extent: Box 1: 16 A4 envelopes Box 2: 17 A4 envelopes Box 3: 3 A4 envelopes + 3 notebooks + 1 folder of papers Box 4: 9 site notebooks Box 5: 6 A4 envelopes + 2 notebooks Box 6: 5 A4 envelopes Box 7: 11 A4
envelopes + 1 notebook Box 8: index cardsPhotographic documents: 2 files8 oversize folders
Held by: Durham University Archaeology Museum
Origination: Archaeological Services Durham University
Language:
English
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DURMA.1997.9, 2008.1
DURMA.1985.64.Archive/1
Envelope 1: Planning Archive 2 plans with phasing Lists Possibly contexts: Area 4 & Area 7/7A Concordance of contexts, areas & plans
Envelopes 2-8: Planning Archive, Areas 1 - 7
Envelope 9, 10: Site Files; Durham City Council Archive
Envelope 11: Site Files; BPK 80 - 84 Administration
Envelope 12: Site Files; Beaurepaire reports + letter from WD Hackman re Bronze cog.
Envelope 13: Site Files; Treasure Trove Inquest 1980
Envelope 14: Site Files; Beaurepaire '80 - 84 - general correspondence
Envelope 15: Site Files; Correspondence - Dept of the Environment
Envelope 16: Site Files; Old display labels
DURMA.1985.64.Archive/2 1980-1984
Level III Files
Envelope 17: Jan 1985 records Small finds lists: glass, iron Lists of finds: from BPK 80, BPK 81, BPK 82 Planning & Archaeology Jan 1985 Lists: coins & jettons, pottery, window glass (2 copies typed), window glass (handwritten), vessel
glass (handwritten), bronze SF, iron SF, bone/ivory
Envelope 18: Lists: finds from BPK exc 1982, conservation, metal objects BPK 82 Context find record BPK 80 Accession sheets for BPK finds: copies
Envelope 19: Notes on Jane Fielding's thesis
Envelope 20: Levels - survey data
Envelope 21 : Finds lists: with context, bags, bone & shell 1981, 1983, 1984 1990 list of material in compact store Plan of lands belonging to the deanery of Durham Metal finds record BPK 82 glass Letters & notes about sculptured
stove
Envelope 22: Floor tiles
Envelope 23: Stone roof tiles record and illustrations
Envelope 24: Pottery report
Envelope 25: Maps: Bearpark Estate farm Draft of 'the post-medieval economy ...' by LJ Edwards + note to L Edwards 'The Post-Medieval Economy': typed 'Bearpark Hall Farm': typed
Envelope 26: Excavation Open day information Witton Gilbert Newsletter Newspaper clippings 'Visiting Archaeological sites' Plan: Bearpark
Envelope 27: Earthworks survey + Research design
Envelope 28: BPK 80 - 82 Bricks (only complete or near complete kept)
Envelope 29: Completed typing file: 'The Post-Medieval Economy of the Bearpark Estate' by LJ Edwards Memos Letter: re Beaurepaire Project Papers Introduction & acknowledgements + sketch
Envelope 30: Information to accompany finds for conservation Lists: Bronze BPK 82, Iron BPK 82 - conservation lab, continuation list Pottery reports: 1980, 1981 Level II report Lecture: given by P Clack for day School at Jarrow Hall 26/11/83
Envelope 31: Peter Clack (Arch Unit for NE England) file; Datamaps Results Resistivity survey Letter: to P Clack from Clive Titman
Envelope 32: 2 site notebooks BPK 83 & levels
Envelope 33: miscellaneous Clay pipe report Sections: 1980, E - F & G - H List: diggers 1980 Memo & Letter: from Laurie Note: from Peter Letter: from P Clack re Beaurepaire Project Papers Note + reconstruction of windows: from Martin
Earthwork plan Beaurepaire phasing plan Half of Bearpark Hall Farm illustration Lists: BPK plans & sections, conservation, contexts of pottery BPK 82(?), photography of pottery
DURMA.1985.64.Archive/3 1980-1984
Envelope 34: Small finds lists
Envelope 35: copy of L.J Sidney Animal bone report
Envelope 36: Miscellaneous notes, leaflets, photocopies 1 loose folder: containing miscellaneous info relating (mainly) to Beaurepaire post excavation assessmnet project inc finances admin reports etc
3 notebooks: Trenches 1,2 and 3.
DURMA.1985.64.Archive/4 1980-1984
9 notebooks:
1. Areas and Plans 1980: 1-79
2. Bearpark 1981: site records & layers 1-143
3. Bearpark 1981: site records & layers 144-240
4. BPK levels book 2
5. Tables 1981: layers, descriptions, plans, levels etc (nos 1 - 383)
6. Tables of plans and layers with some corrections (nos 614 - 1642) + tables entitled by letters with various layers listed
7. Descriptions of rooms with plans
8. Bearpark 81 photo log
9. Small finds
DURMA.1985.64.Archive/5 1980-1984
Notebooks: BPK 1982/1983 Site records IV Nos 241-398 BPK 1983/4 Site records V Nos 399-517
Envelope 37: Site Notebooks; computer printouts-matrix?
Envelopes 38-42: Context Sheets; BPK 1980, 1981 Nos 1 - 94 BPK 1981 cont'd Nos 95 - 195 BPK 82 Nos 196 - 313 BPK 83 Nos 315 - 404 BPK 84 Nos 405 - 497
DURMA.1985.64.Archive/6 1980-1984
Finds
Envelope 43: BPK Typed Level III Texts
Envelopes 44-46: Small find record 1, 2 & 3
Envelopes 47, 48: Context find records
Envelopes 49 - 51: Context find records 1, 2 & 3 (site book copy)
DURMA.1985.64.Archive/7 1980-1984
Notebook: "Dave's Book"
Envelope 52: Pottery drawings
Envelope 53: Claypipe report 1980-82
Envelope 54: Animal bone info BPK 82
Envelopes 55 - 58: Worked stone/tile records 1,2,3 and 4
Envelope 59: Matrix Notes about archive by CPG (Pam Graves?) Dec 96 More notes on archive etc Summary of room B
Envelope 60: 'Two groups of animal bones from bearpark excavations by L.J Gidney J. Fielding's unpublshed dissertation Bearpark engravings form the Kaye collection
Envelope 61: Beaurepaire post excavation assessment project-final report april 1992 June 1996 report Meat poultry and game at Beaurepaire residence of the priors & deans of Durham, the 14th to 17th century documentary evidence
Envelope 62: The post-medieval ecomonomy of the bearpark estate, Durham by Lloyd J.Edwards The Prior of Durhams estate at Beaurepaire, by M.G Snape Pottery from excavations at Beaurepaire. Pottery to 1983 season The administration of the
Beaurepaire estate before the reformation: a brief synopsis, by R.A Lomas
Envelope 63: Drawing of ruined building, doc A1271 4 draft reports, typed & annotated docs A1272, A1275, A1276, A2676 2 lists of finds, handwritten, one with heading attached - An Inventory of _ manor in 1464, docs A1273, 1274 note to
Anthony from Peter re Bearpark pieces, doc 1274
DURMA.1985.64.Archive/8 1980-1984
Index of B+W contact prints; 2 sheets of handwritten notes, possibly related.
Photographic evidence File 1: Team photo 1980 - annotated print
Pottery drawings (16 mimeographs) - 8 pages Negatives (270 large) - 30 pages (882 small) - 27 pages
File 2: Bearpark Hall Farm (3 annotated b&w prints) - 1 page Plans, diagrams (29 annotated mimeographs) - 15 pages Negatives (51 small) - 2 pages 1 mimeograph with note re provenance 5 slides 1 site photograph - b&w print on card
Prior Wessinton's Seal - 1 large print Folder 1: Beaurepaire Manor House, Walls and Stone Floor - sketchmap of site Folder 2: OS map - annotated, showing site etc with key attached OS map - Bearpark, scale 1:2500 Sketchmap of site - to scale on
drafting film Diagrams - cross sections to scale on drafting film Sketchmap with some rocks drawn - to scale on drafting film Map indicating contours of valley
Folder 3: 7 annotated B&W photographs in 4 plastic covers
Folder 4: Area 3 - identical sketchmaps (scale 1:50) each annotated differently, all photocopies (15 pages)
Folder 5: Area 4 - identical sketchmaps (scale 1:50) each annotated differently, all photocopies (5 pages, some consisting of 2 sheets glued together)
Folder 6: Area 5 - sketchmap of whole area identical sketchmaps of part of area, each annotated differently, all photocopies (4 pages)
Folder 7: Area 6 - identical sketchmaps (scale 1:50) each annotated differently, all photocopies (4 pages) sketchmap of part of area
Folder 8: Area 7 - sketchmaps of area (scale 1:50), with varying additions and annotations, all photocopies (8 pages)
