Plymouth, Devon in 1620
Author(s): Zoe Moscrip
Year: 2020
Summary
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Plymouth had grown from a regional trading port into the English western base for exploration and military expeditions. This talk aims to examine how the integration of documentary, archaeological and cartographic evidence can help to show what Plymouth looked like at the time of the visit of the Mayflower & the Speedwell in 1620.
Though plans had been made, after the passage of the Spanish Armada, to wall the town against attack, these were never built and the town was weakly defended.
Particular attention will be paid to the development of the defences, the waterfront, merchant houses and civic buildings, such as the Guildhall and St Andrews church, as well as some trades such as ropemaking & tidemills.
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Plymouth, Devon in 1620. Zoe Moscrip. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457102)
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Keywords
General
1620
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Defence
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Plymouth
Geographic Keywords
United Kingdom
Temporal Keywords
Post Medieval
Spatial Coverage
min long: -8.158; min lat: 49.955 ; max long: 1.749; max lat: 60.722 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 800