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A 4.1.1 Coin. In: Roy, M 'Matter of Life and Death' Trade and Burial around St Giles' Cathedral: Archaeological Investigations at Parliament House, Edinburgh'
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Holmes, Nicholas
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Abstract
- Archaeological evaluation of the Southern Courtyard of the Parliament House complex, to the south of St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh’s Old Town, has provided a valuable insight into the lives, health and mortality of the inhabitants of the late medieval city. The evaluation revealed a backland area in the centre of medieval Edinburgh, with deposits rich in artefactual and ecofactual material derived from the everyday lives of the populace, underlying early burghal surfaces. The presence of artefacts including a small leather assemblage and a seal matrix may indicate production and trading activities between the High Street and the Cowgate in the late medieval period. Above these surfaces, and underlying fragmentary evidence of the post-medieval Meal Market, numerous late medieval inhumations were recorded; these belonged to the southward expansion of St Giles’ graveyard. This report details the analysis of the skeletal remains, illuminating the health and demography of the population of the city from around the mid-15th to the early-to-mid-16th century.
- Archaeological evaluation of the Southern Courtyard of the Parliament House complex, to the south of St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh’s Old Town, has provided a valuable insight into the lives, health and mortality of the inhabitants of the late medieval city. The evaluation revealed a backland area in the centre of medieval Edinburgh, with deposits rich in artefactual and ecofactual material derived from the everyday lives of the populace, underlying early burghal surfaces. The presence of artefacts including a small leather assemblage and a seal matrix may indicate production and trading activities between the High Street and the Cowgate in the late medieval period. Above these surfaces, and underlying fragmentary evidence of the post-medieval Meal Market, numerous late medieval inhumations were recorded; these belonged to the southward expansion of St Giles’ graveyard. This report details the analysis of the skeletal remains, illuminating the health and demography of the population of the city from around the mid-15th to the early-to-mid-16th century.
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Holmes, Nicholas
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Holmes, Nicholas
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Cerón-Carrasco, R
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Craster, A
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Cross, M
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Crowley, N
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Evans, Jane
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Franklin, J
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Hall, A
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Hall, Derek
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Holmes, Nicholas
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Inglis, R
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Kenward, H
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Melikian, M
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Smith, Catherine
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Thomas, C
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Thoms, J
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Thomson, L
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Timpany, S
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Toolis, R
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Walton Rogers, P
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Carrurthers, G
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Cerón-Carrasco, R
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- Institution
- National Museums Scotland
- Organisational unit
- Scottish History and Archaeology (from 2012)
- Series name
- Scottish Archaeological Internet Report
- Journal title
- Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports
- Issue
- 87
- Publisher
- The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
- Place of publication
- Edinburgh
- ISBN
- 2056-7421
- ISSN
- e2056-7421
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