Tales of Two Cities: Settlement and Suburb in Old Sarum and Salisbury

Telling the story of Old Sarum and Salisbury, from the mid-10th century to the start of the 20th, this book brings together the most up-to-date thinking on the archaeological evidence, and, through analysis of the rich documentary record, provides a fresh take on the story of this most illustrious cathedral city in the heart of south

Tales of Two Cities tells the story of Old Sarum and Salisbury, from the middle of the tenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. The volume brings together the most up-to-date thinking on the archaeological evidence for both medieval cities, and through analysis of the rich documentary record, charts the developments in the city settlements and their dependent suburbs. For the first time, the archaeological evidence for Old Sarum and its suburbs is brought together in synthesis to explore its rise in the eleventh century, its hey-day in the twelfth, and the rapid decline from the thirteenth century onwards. The ceramic, zooarchaeological and environmental evidence is assessed for both cities, alongside a comprehensive overview of the archaeological evidence for medieval Salisbury. How this new and visionary city took shape in the thirteenth century is analysed through chapters that examine its churches, its mills, its majestic marketplace and its innovative watercourses. Chapters on Old Sarum’s suburbs are matched by explorations of the medieval and later suburbs of Salisbury; Tales of Two Cities provides a fresh take on the story of this most illustrious cathedral city in the heart of southern England.

An English city through time: Old Sarum to Salisbury - Alex Langlands and Hadrian Cook Chapter One: Old Sarum, new perspectives - Alex Langlands Chapter Two: Kingsbridge Mead: A medieval bridge and settlement and its pre-Conquest origins - Alex Langlands Chapter Three: Salisbury in Domesday Book - C. P. Lewis Chapter Four: 'Withoute eche of these gates was a fair suburbe': The west and east suburbs of Old Sarum in the eleventh to fifteenth centuries - Alex Langlands Chapter Five: Zooarchaeology in the 'Two Cities' and their hinterlands, AD 800-1400: Current Knowledge and Future Directions - Matilda Holmes Chapter Six: Archaeobotanical and archaeoentomological insights into agriculture, diet and the urban transition from Old Sarum to Salisbury: research potential for environmental archaeology - Ines Lopez-Doriga, with a contribution by Sander Aerts Chapter Seven: The supply and use of pottery at Old and New Sarum - A time of transition - Lorraine Mepham Chapter Eight: Salisbury's medieval city: a summary of the archaeological evidence of this planned settlement and the foundation of St Thomas' Church - Phil Harding and Brett Howard Chapter Nine: The early development of New Sarum, 1086 - 1269 - Christopher Daniell Chapter Ten: Salisbury Marketplace: From a medieval economic vision to the city's central public and social space - Geoff Lang Chapter Eleven: Fisherton Anger: From Domesday settlement to medieval suburb - Jamie Wright Chapter Twelve: Chalk, cheese, and urban growth: Britford parish in Wiltshire 1620 to 1960 - Hadrian Cook Chapter Thirteen: Something old, something new: Suburban Salisbury since 1800 - Hadrian Cook Appendix One: A section through a medieval city: Notes on the 1967 sewer pipe trench cut through the east gate of Old Sarum - Alex Langlands and Lorraine Mepham Bibliography,

An English city through time: Old Sarum to Salisbury – Alex Langlands and Hadrian Cook

Chapter One: Old Sarum, new perspectives – Alex Langlands

Chapter Two: Kingsbridge Mead: A medieval bridge and settlement and its pre-Conquest origins – Alex Langlands

Chapter Three: Salisbury in Domesday Book – C. P. Lewis

Chapter Four: ‘Withoute eche of these gates was a fair suburbe’: The west and east suburbs of Old Sarum in the eleventh to fifteenth centuries – Alex Langlands

Chapter Five: Zooarchaeology in the ‘Two Cities’ and their hinterlands, AD 800-1400: Current Knowledge and Future Directions – Matilda Holmes

Chapter Six: Archaeobotanical and archaeoentomological insights into agriculture, diet and the urban transition from Old Sarum to Salisbury: research potential for environmental archaeology – Inés López-Dóriga, with a contribution by Sander Aerts

Chapter Seven: The supply and use of pottery at Old and New Sarum – A time of transition – Lorraine Mepham

Chapter Eight: Salisbury’s medieval city: a summary of the archaeological evidence of this planned settlement and the foundation of St Thomas’ Church – Phil Harding and Brett Howard

Chapter Nine: The early development of New Sarum, 1086 – 1269 – Christopher Daniell

Chapter Ten: Salisbury Marketplace: From a medieval economic vision to the city’s central public and social space – Geoff Lang

Chapter Eleven: Fisherton Anger: From Domesday settlement to medieval suburb – Jamie Wright

Chapter Twelve: Chalk, cheese, and urban growth: Britford parish in Wiltshire 1620 to 1960 – Hadrian Cook

Chapter Thirteen: Something old, something new: Suburban Salisbury since 1800 – Hadrian Cook

Appendix One: A section through a medieval city: Notes on the 1967 sewer pipe trench cut through the east gate of Old Sarum – Alex Langlands and Lorraine Mepham

Bibliography

Hadrian Cook has a background in the Earth Sciences and has written extensively on environmental history and environmental policy, specialising in water management. He held academic positions within the University of London, and at Kingston University. Hadrian is a committee member of the Society of Landscape Studies and works in adult education as well as being a trustee and ‘Drowner’ of the Harnham Water Meadows in Salisbury.

Alex Langlands has worked as a field archaeologist in southern England and, for over fifteen years, as a broadcaster for BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5. He is a best-selling author and one-time resident of Salisbury. He now teaches and researches in archaeology, history and heritage at Swansea University where he is Associate Professor.

• Edited by Hadrian Cook
• Edited by Alex Langlands