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 Defence 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