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The volume describes the archaeological discoveries made within the outer precincts of St Augustine’s Abbey, in ground now part of the campus of Canterbury Christ Church University. Development work at the university between 1983 and 2007 involved numerous archaeological interventions, the results of which are presented. Remains were uncovered spanning prehistoric to modern times. Of particular note was evidence for Bronze Age settlement, a Roman cremation cemetery and water conduit, a mid Anglo-Saxon craftworking site associated with the monastery of SS Peter and Paul (founded c AD 598). Subsequent development associated with the outer court of the abbey saw the construction of major service buildings including a brewhouse-bakehouse and a cellarer’s range. Cultural assemblages, together with environmental material retrieved from sampled remains, are analysed and a documentary study follows the development of the abbey and its ground beyond the post-Dissolution creation of a royal palace on the site.

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Alison Hicks FSA MIFA is a field archaeologist with a specialism in medieval monasticism. She has worked in Canterbury for over 20 years, and within the city has directed excavations at the sites of St Gregory’s Priory and the Augustinian friary known as Whitefriars. She has also conducted fieldwork within the grounds of Canterbury Cathedral and in the outer precincts of St Augustine’s Abbey.

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