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The aims of the society are to "advance and promote the education of the public in the history, heritage and archaeology of Bristol and Gloucestershire". [2] The activities of the society include: [2] encouraging and facilitating research and practical engagement; providing avenues for publication and the public dissemination of knowledge
[13] [14] Archaeologists from Bristol and Region Archaeological Services were on site during the restoration works, and uncovered a fragment of what may be the earliest scientific sundial in Britain. The sundial is a block of Bath stone carved with hour lines and medieval Arabic numerals in a style that suggests it was probably made in the 15th ...
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Jordan of Bristol (Latin: Iordanus) [7] was a saint venerated in Bristol, England, before the Reformation, about whom little is known with certainty. [2]Traditionally, Jordan was considered a companion of Augustine of Canterbury who came to the South West of England in the early 7th century, founded a local church, and was later venerated as a saint. [1]
Digitally enhanced image of Jacobs Well inscription based on a 2017 archaeological 3D scan The interpretation of the well and the inscription was challenged in 2001. [ 5 ] The authors suggested that the well is too deep and restricted for a mikveh and too far from the medieval Jewish quarter, in the centre of the town.
Bristol Cathedral was founded as St Augustine's Abbey in 1140 by Robert Fitzharding, a wealthy local landowner and royal official who later became Lord Berkeley. [3] [4] As the name suggests, the monastic precinct housed Augustinian canons. [5]
This is where the Bristol's 'Marian Martyrs' were burnt in 1556-7, events described in John Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1563). [14] The executions are memorialised in what is now Cotham Church. [15] Seventeenth-century references in Bristol's financial accounts include payments for 'a new double-ladder for the gallows' in 1625. [16]
The Clifton Antiquarian Club is an archaeological society founded in 1884 in Bristol to investigate antiquities in the surrounding areas of western England and southern Wales. The 28 years of research undertaken by the members and associates of the original society fill the first seven volumes of the Proceedings of the Clifton Antiquarian Club ...