28th August 2006, 11:12 AM
Monastic sites are always excellent and sometimes manage to survive pretty well. I worked on one in a costal town a few years ago and the water engineering was amazing. The first site I dug on was a royal castle which was referenced in these documents called the Liberate Rolls. Bascially these gave us the distribution of buildings and their sizes. Basically excavate the room/building, measure it and look at its location in relation to the surviving bits of the site. Absolutly amazing and turned me into a medievalist for life.