부산대학교 도서관

The Bordesley Abbey Project has widened its horizons as it has developed, linking the core excavation of the abbey church with archaeological fieldwork, both in the outer court and beyond the precinct boundary on the abbey's granges, and with architectural and documentary research. Exceptional preservation is the key to Bordesley's importance -- the survival of its precinct as a complete set of earthworks and of the unusually deep and complex stratification, yielding data and artefacts which are both very rich and extensive, and very well stratified, within a finely-divided chronology. This review is a preliminary attempt to integrate the different elements, and to highlight the potential of the data now and for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]