Lesnes Abbey, Bexley, Greater London: An Archaeological Survey of Selected Areas of the Abbey Grounds
Author(s): Lawrence Rees, Sarah Newsome
Between September 2018 and January 2019 Lawrence Rees (Chartered Institute for Archaeologists Specialist Placement) and Sarah Newsome (Historic England) undertook a project to research the landscape of Lesnes Abbey, Bexley, Greater London as a training exercise and as part of preliminary work to address some of the oldest scheduled monument entries on the National Heritage List for England. The project involved the examination of secondary documentary sources and historic maps, aerial investigation of the wider abbey site and targeted analytical earthwork survey of three areas of the abbey grounds. The research has enabled the authors to identify and survey the possible site of the dovecot, survey Second World War activity adjacent to the abbey and record the 17th-century farm site located to its south-west. It has also highlighted the potential significance of the barn platform to the north-east of the abbey, where Clapham’s interpretation of the barn as a late monastic building has been largely substantiated.
- Report Number:
- 212/2020
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 84
- Keywords:
- Medieval Modern Post Medieval Survey Aerial Photograph Interpretation Analytical Landscape Survey Aerial Photography
