Eccleshall Castle
The castle was used as the residence of the Bishops of Lichfield. The first reference to this building was in 1200, when Bishop Geoffrey Muschamp obtained a royal licence to embattle a manor house in ...
Eccleshall Castle
The castle was used as the residence of the Bishops of Lichfield. The first reference to this building was in 1200, when Bishop Geoffrey Muschamp obtained a royal licence to embattle a manor house in ...
Eccleshall 'Castle' : sepia drawing
'Eccleshall Palace, Staffordshire.' Showing the rebuilt Bishop's Palace (1698). A two storey house with a central block and two wings. There are steps and balustrading in front of the building. Also ...
Egyptian Wall Painting. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide of a diagram taken from an article entitled "Egyptian Potters at Work (From a Wall-Painting at Beni Hasan)".
The article outlines an Egyptian process for making ceramic cups through ...
Elysium Cottage, Baddeley Edge, Stoke-on-Trent
Elysium Cottage is across the road from Spout Well (just visible on the extreme left edge of the photograph). The house is a remodelled old stone cottage, not unlike the dwellings above and behind. Most ...
Entrance to Dudley Castle, West Midlands
The entrance to Dudley Castle with the top of the Keep showing above the trees. In the foreground is Castle Street with tram lines.
The first Dudley Castle was built around 1100 but was completely ...
Essington Windmill
This photograph taken in the 1920s is almost certainly Essington Windmill, Staffordshire's only post-mill
All that remains today is the base and central post. It believed to have been built by Henry ...
Excavating the mill wheel, White Barn Farm, Shugborough
Members of Staffordshire Industrial Archaeology Society excavating the iron mill wheel which drove a water powered threshing machine at White Barn Farm on the Shugborough Estate. White Barn was built ...
Excavation at Willow Cottage, Cheddleton
Excavations at Willow Cottage, Cheddleton. From around 1955 to 1978 the cottage was a centre for camping and canoeing for members of Staffordshire Youth and Community Service. The cottage is adjacent ...
Excavation of Queen's Low Barrow, Tixall, (1)
Queen's Low is a burial mound located near Lower Hanyards.
The mound dates from the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age (2400 - 1500 BC), and is known as a 'bowl' barrow because of its shape.
Excavation of Queen's Low Barrow, Tixall, (2)
Queen's Low is a burial mound located near Lower Hanyards.
The mound dates from the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age (2400 - 1500 BC), and is known as a 'bowl' barrow because of its shape.
Excavation of Roman villa, Engleton, Penkridge
Workmen standing with a Roman column. A Roman villa of the 2nd to 4th century AD was excavated in summer 1937 by Wolverhampton Archaeological Society with the support of Kathleen Kenyon. The site is ...
Excavation of St. Bertelin's Church, Stafford
Mr. A. H. Oswald, Keeper of Archaeology at Birmingham Museum, describing the progress of excavations on the site of St. Bertelin's Chapel in St. Mary's churchyard to members of the Old Stafford Society. ...
Excavation of the Old Town Wall, Stafford,
The junction of Mill Bank and Greengate Street was the site of the medieval Green Gate, the main entrance to the walled town.
In 1928 the council purchased the buildings along Mill Bank Corner, in ...
Excavation of the Wash Pit Railings, Eccleshall, (1)
The Wash Pit, or Sheep Pool, on Church Street was a pond fed by a spring.
After a fire at the church in 1868 the need for a water supply became apparent. In 1890 the Wash Pit was cleaned out and deepened ...
Excavation of the Wash Pit Railings, Eccleshall, (2)
The Wash Pit, or Sheep Pool, on Church Street was a pond fed by a spring.
After a fire at the church in 1868 the need for a water supply became apparent. In 1890 the Wash Pit was cleaned out and deepened ...
Excavations at Letocetum Roman site, Wall
One of a series of views of excavations at the Roman site at Wall which took place between 1912 and 1914. This view shows a hypocaust (underfloor heating system) in what was at the time thought to be ...
Farewell Church - Archaeological find: woodcut engraving
Showing one of the earthen ware jars found, c. 1747, in the south wall of this church when it was demolished. (See SV IV.187b.ii, for a letter concerning the jar, written by R. Greene (in whose museum ...