The Mediaeval Exe Bridge, St Edmund's Church and excavation of waterfront houses, Exeter

摘要

The medieval bridge at Exeter originally had seventeen or eighteen arches (London Bridge had nineteen) and carried houses and a church. Following construction of two new bridges over the River Exe in 1969-72, the area round the old bridge was cleared and the remaining nine arches consolidated and repointed. This splendid book is the product of an archaeological survey undertaken in 1975-79 and subsequent examination of the records relating to the bridge and its buildings. Printed on good quality paper, the illustrations and diagrams are clear and informative. Each feature of the bridge is discussed and set in context, and there is a short section on the later bridges. Six appendices include a transcription of the bridgewardens' accounts of 1343-52. A full bibliography and index complete the book - excellent value for a publication of this standard.