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Leominster Old Priory: excavation, building recording and post-excavation summary, 1979-81

Post-excavation work covered the 1979–81 excavation and building survey. The surviving complex includes part of the monastic reredorter and infirmary over a watercourse; phases were assigned to the 12th and early 14th centuries, and parts of two fishponds were recorded.

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Post-excavation work covered the 1979-81 excavation and building survey, with the Pinsley Mead gas-pipe trench also to be included. The standing complex contains part of the monastic reredorter and infirmary over a watercourse; the earliest phase was assigned to the 12th century, most surviving medieval fabric to the early 14th century, and parts of two monastic fishponds were located in Pinsley Mead.

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Leominster Old Priory: excavation, building recording and post-excavation summary, 1979-81

Fieldwork report · 1989

Post-excavation work covered the 1979–81 excavation and building survey. The surviving complex includes part of the monastic reredorter and infirmary over a watercourse; phases were assigned to the 12th and early 14th centuries, and parts of two fishponds were recorded.

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Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club

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