Ipswich Town Defences (The Gatehouse Record)

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Scheduled Monument Number 1005985, Legacy Scheduled Monument Number sf189
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 388302.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) IPS 413; IPS 053.

Websites (Gatehouse is not responsible for the content of external websites.)
- The ORB
  The ORB
Books
- Salter, Mike, 2013, Medieval Walled Towns (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 79
  Creighton, O.H. and Higham, R.A., 2005, Medieval Town Walls (Stroud: Tempus) p. 60, 72, 156, 179, 264
  Salter, Mike, 2002, Index and Amendments to Mike Salter's English Castles Books (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 9
  Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles of East Anglia (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 80
  Wade, Keith, 1999 (3edn), 'Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Ipswich' in Dymond, David and Martin, Edward (eds) An Historical Atlas of Suffolk (Lavenham) p. 158-9
  Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge: Boydell Press) p. 239 (slight)
  Bond, C.J., 1987, 'Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Defences' in Schofield, J. and Leech, R. (eds) Urban Archaeology in Britain (CBA Research Report 61) p. 92-116 online copy
  King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 2 p. 461
  Dunmore, S. et al, 1976, Ipswich Archaeological survey; second interim report (Dereham: East Anglian Archaeology 3) p. 135-40
  Barley, M.W., 1975, 'Town Defences in England and Wales after 1066' in Barley (ed) The plans and topography of medieval towns in England and Wales (CBA Research Report 14) p. 57-71 download/view online
  Turner, H.L., 1971, Town Defences in England and Wales (London) p. 126
  Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (London: Methuen and Co) p. 226
  Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol. 3 Part 2 p. 297 online copy
  Grose, Francis, 1785 (new edn orig 1756), Antiquities of England and Wales (London) Vol. 5 p. 72-3 online copy
Periodical Articles
- Creighton, Oliver, 2006, ''Castles of Communities': Medieval Town Defences in England; Wales and Gascony' Château Gaillard Vol. 22 p. 75-86
  2003, 'Archaeology in Suffolk 2002' Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History Vol. 40.3 p. 362 (slight - ditch) online copy
  Owles, E.J., 1975, 'Archaeology in Suffolk, 1975' Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History Vol. 33.3 p. 325-6 online copy
  Owles, E.J., 1971, 'The west gate of Ipswich' Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History Vol. 32.2 p. 164-7 online copy
  West, S.E., 1963, 'Excavations at Cox Lane (1958) and at the Town Defences, Shire Hall Yard, Ipswich (1959). (with reports by G.C. Dunning, R.H.M. Dolley and D. Charman)' Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History Vol. 29 Part 3 p. 233-303 online copy online copy (The documentary evidence)
  (West), 1960, Medieval Archaeology Vol. 4 p. 150 download copy
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1907, Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward III (1350-54) Vol. 9 p. 314 (licence to crenellate) online copy
  Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1895, Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward I (1292-1301) Vol. 3 p. 421 (murage grant) online copy
  Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1907, Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward III (1350-54) Vol. 9 p. 314 (murage grant) online copy
  Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1909, Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward III (1354-58) Vol. 10 p. 144 (murage grant) online copy
  - Also see the Gatehouse murage pages for full details of murage grants, petitions and other such.
Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
- Camden, Wm, 1607, Britannia hypertext critical edition by Dana F. Sutton (2004)

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The bibliography owes much to various bibliographies produced by John Kenyon for the Council for British Archaeology, the Castle Studies Group and others.

Suggestions for finding online and/or hard copies of bibliographical sources can be seen at this link.
Minor archaeological investigations, such as watching brief reports, and some other 'grey' literature is most likely to be held by H.E.R.s but is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded here, or elsewhere, but some suggestions can be found here.

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