Bob Meeson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5686863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bob Meeson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bob |
| FAMILY NAME | Meeson |
| SIGNATURE | MEESON B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Black Swan Terrace, Upper Spon Street, Coventry
The structure and use of the medieval renter row, 119–23 Upper Spon Street, Coventry, is examined and compared to the ‘Wealden’ row, 159–62 Spon Street, Coventry, 34–50 Church Street, Tewkesbury, the longest surviving row of medieval renters, and other previously described renters. Most of them are part-floored, generally with footprints in the range of 15–30m2, and some of them have smoke aprons to protect the upper rooms. Such premises might ha…
What’s in a Name? the use of Tusk Tenons and Face-Pegged Through Tenons in England
From the seventeenth century to the nineteenth, carpenters' and builders' manuals have defined tusks as shoulders above or below tenons. In recent decades, especially in English archaeological literature, the term 'tusk tenon' has come to be applied in a variety of ways to what are more generally known on the Continent as 'through tenons with face pegs'. To meet the demands imposed by a growing typology, it is suggested below that 'tusk tenon' sh…
Structural Trends in English Medieval Buildings
Since the first annual lists of tree-ring dated buildings were published in Vernacular Architecture in 1980, dendrochronologists have assigned either a precise felling date or reasonably narrow dating parameters to more than 3000 building construction phases. In 1997, and again in 2001, Sarah Pearson traced the chronological distribution of rural aristocratic, gentry, vernacular and urban buildings tree-ring dated to 1200–1600. In 2001 it was par…
Radiocarbon Dating of a Reused Cruck Blade from Warwickshire and its Implications for the Typology of Cruck Construction
Radiocarbon dating using Bayesian wiggle-matching of multiple dates has been applied to a cruck blade reused in a seventeenth-century farmhouse, Church End Farm, Nether Whitacre, Warwickshire, which was believed on typological grounds to date from the thirteenth century. However, the date range obtained for the felling of the timber was 1423–46 cal AD (95% probability). This unexpectedly late date has led to a re-evaluation of the original dating…
Ritual Marks and Graffiti
This short paper was prompted by recent recording of ritual marks and graffiti in the west midlands. One set of marks is so complex as to suggest a palimpsest, resulting from incisions made at different dates, implying continuity of this traditional activity. The inscriptions found on plaster prompted the notions that many inscribed marks might yet remain hidden behind wallpaper and other later finishes, that they were more common and more widely…
Archaeological Evidence and Analysis
The underlying tenet of this paper is that as the Vernacular Architecture Group approaches its first half-century, theoretical archaeology and the dismemberment of established models will compel more meticulous building recording and a more explicit distinction between evidence and analysis. The following study illustrates how, in the light of complex recording and analysis, a medieval hall and cross-wing house in Staffordshire has been reinterpr…
Time and Place
Two- or three-bay houses with square panel and straight braces in the walls, and side-purlin roofs with tiebeams and single collars trusses, were common in much of the post-medieval Staffordshire. Although such buildings are the predominant visible expression of structural carpentry in the county they are markedly different from surviving medieval buildings. The most common type of medieval building in the area is crucks-framed; approximately six…
In Defence of Selective Recording
In response to Iain Ferris' article it is argued that minutely detailed recording, necessary in the process of excavation, which is inevitably destructive, is inappropriate for standing buildings. Here the act of recording should be accompanied by that of interpretation and should therefore be selective
Plank-Walled Building Techniques and the Church of St. Lawrence, Rushton Spencer
Archaeological excavations and architectural recording are constantly throwing new light upon the variety of medieval buildings. This paper collects together some of the recent work upon plank-walled buildings and suggests that they may have formed a significant proportion of the building stock of early medieval England. With that proposal in mind, the timber church of St. Lawrence at Rushton Spencer in N. Staffordshire is interpreted as a plank-…
Medieval Houses at Flaxengate, Lincoln
Medieval Houses at Flaxengate, Lincoln
Structural Trends in English Medieval Buildings
Since the first annual lists of tree-ring dated buildings were published in Vernacular Architecture in 1980, dendrochronologists have assigned either a precise felling date or reasonably narrow dating parameters to more than 3000 building construction phases. In 1997, and again in 2001, Sarah Pearson traced the chronological distribution of rural aristocratic, gentry, vernacular and urban buildings tree-ring dated to 1200–1600. In 2001 it was par…
In Defence of Selective Recording
In response to Iain Ferris' article it is argued that minutely detailed recording, necessary in the process of excavation, which is inevitably destructive, is inappropriate for standing buildings. Here the act of recording should be accompanied by that of interpretation and should therefore be selective
Black Swan Terrace, Upper Spon Street, Coventry
The structure and use of the medieval renter row, 119–23 Upper Spon Street, Coventry, is examined and compared to the ‘Wealden’ row, 159–62 Spon Street, Coventry, 34–50 Church Street, Tewkesbury, the longest surviving row of medieval renters, and other previously described renters. Most of them are part-floored, generally with footprints in the range of 15–30m2, and some of them have smoke aprons to protect the upper rooms. Such premises might ha…
What’s in a Name? the use of Tusk Tenons and Face-Pegged Through Tenons in England
From the seventeenth century to the nineteenth, carpenters' and builders' manuals have defined tusks as shoulders above or below tenons. In recent decades, especially in English archaeological literature, the term 'tusk tenon' has come to be applied in a variety of ways to what are more generally known on the Continent as 'through tenons with face pegs'. To meet the demands imposed by a growing typology, it is suggested below that 'tusk tenon' sh…
Radiocarbon Dating of a Reused Cruck Blade from Warwickshire and its Implications for the Typology of Cruck Construction
Radiocarbon dating using Bayesian wiggle-matching of multiple dates has been applied to a cruck blade reused in a seventeenth-century farmhouse, Church End Farm, Nether Whitacre, Warwickshire, which was believed on typological grounds to date from the thirteenth century. However, the date range obtained for the felling of the timber was 1423–46 cal AD (95% probability). This unexpectedly late date has led to a re-evaluation of the original dating…
Medieval Houses at Flaxengate, Lincoln
Medieval Houses at Flaxengate, Lincoln
Medieval Houses at Flaxengate, Lincoln
Plank-Walled Building Techniques and the Church of St. Lawrence, Rushton Spencer
Archaeological excavations and architectural recording are constantly throwing new light upon the variety of medieval buildings. This paper collects together some of the recent work upon plank-walled buildings and suggests that they may have formed a significant proportion of the building stock of early medieval England. With that proposal in mind, the timber church of St. Lawrence at Rushton Spencer in N. Staffordshire is interpreted as a plank-…
In Defence of Selective Recording
In response to Iain Ferris' article it is argued that minutely detailed recording, necessary in the process of excavation, which is inevitably destructive, is inappropriate for standing buildings. Here the act of recording should be accompanied by that of interpretation and should therefore be selective
Time and Place
Two- or three-bay houses with square panel and straight braces in the walls, and side-purlin roofs with tiebeams and single collars trusses, were common in much of the post-medieval Staffordshire. Although such buildings are the predominant visible expression of structural carpentry in the county they are markedly different from surviving medieval buildings. The most common type of medieval building in the area is crucks-framed; approximately six…
Archaeological Evidence and Analysis
The underlying tenet of this paper is that as the Vernacular Architecture Group approaches its first half-century, theoretical archaeology and the dismemberment of established models will compel more meticulous building recording and a more explicit distinction between evidence and analysis. The following study illustrates how, in the light of complex recording and analysis, a medieval hall and cross-wing house in Staffordshire has been reinterpr…
Ritual Marks and Graffiti
This short paper was prompted by recent recording of ritual marks and graffiti in the west midlands. One set of marks is so complex as to suggest a palimpsest, resulting from incisions made at different dates, implying continuity of this traditional activity. The inscriptions found on plaster prompted the notions that many inscribed marks might yet remain hidden behind wallpaper and other later finishes, that they were more common and more widely…
Radiocarbon Dating of a Reused Cruck Blade from Warwickshire and its Implications for the Typology of Cruck Construction
Radiocarbon dating using Bayesian wiggle-matching of multiple dates has been applied to a cruck blade reused in a seventeenth-century farmhouse, Church End Farm, Nether Whitacre, Warwickshire, which was believed on typological grounds to date from the thirteenth century. However, the date range obtained for the felling of the timber was 1423–46 cal AD (95% probability). This unexpectedly late date has led to a re-evaluation of the original dating…
Structural Trends in English Medieval Buildings
Since the first annual lists of tree-ring dated buildings were published in Vernacular Architecture in 1980, dendrochronologists have assigned either a precise felling date or reasonably narrow dating parameters to more than 3000 building construction phases. In 1997, and again in 2001, Sarah Pearson traced the chronological distribution of rural aristocratic, gentry, vernacular and urban buildings tree-ring dated to 1200–1600. In 2001 it was par…
Black Swan Terrace, Upper Spon Street, Coventry
The structure and use of the medieval renter row, 119–23 Upper Spon Street, Coventry, is examined and compared to the ‘Wealden’ row, 159–62 Spon Street, Coventry, 34–50 Church Street, Tewkesbury, the longest surviving row of medieval renters, and other previously described renters. Most of them are part-floored, generally with footprints in the range of 15–30m2, and some of them have smoke aprons to protect the upper rooms. Such premises might ha…
What’s in a Name? the use of Tusk Tenons and Face-Pegged Through Tenons in England
From the seventeenth century to the nineteenth, carpenters' and builders' manuals have defined tusks as shoulders above or below tenons. In recent decades, especially in English archaeological literature, the term 'tusk tenon' has come to be applied in a variety of ways to what are more generally known on the Continent as 'through tenons with face pegs'. To meet the demands imposed by a growing typology, it is suggested below that 'tusk tenon' sh…
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