Uses and recycling of brick in medieval and Tudor English buildings: insights from the application of luminescence dating and new avenues for further research
I.K. Bailiff|Sophie Blain|C.P. Graves|T. Gurling|Sarah Semple
Luminescence dating has been applied to ceramic bricks sampled from a selection of English medieval ecclesiastical and secular buildings in Essex, Kent Lincolnshire, ranging age the fourth late sixteenth centuries. The results obtained for Anglo-Saxon churches, which included Brixworth, confirmed reuse Roman brick all cases. dates earliest type indicate that making was reintroduced during eleventh century, century earlier than previously accepted, same Tudor building practice recycling materials period also brick.
The Archaeological Journal|HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)|HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)|Durham Research Online (Durham University)|Durham Research Online (Durham University)