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Keynsham Abbey: A Cartulary

by Barbara J. Lowe

149 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); Source book; catalogue #06-1289; ISBN 1-4120-9534-4; US$21.62, C$24.86, EUR17.76, £12.43

As essential sourcebook for the history of Keynsham Abbey. It incorporates information gathered during 40 years into documents, including 30 years excavation on the Abbey site.

This is a comprehensive source book for information about Keynsham Abbey and will be invaluable for students who wish to study daily life in a Medieval Victorine Abbey. The available records regarding Keynsham Abbey are woefully incomplete and scattered in various locations in different countries, making a coherent history impossible. As no original cartulary seems to have survived, the author has attempted to collate, roughly, chronologically, all the information relating to it that she has meticulously assembled during 40 yeas research into the history of Keynsham and its Abbey, including the knowledge gained during 30 years excavation on its site.

Barbara Lowe is retired mathematics teacher and lecturer in local history and archeology.

After reading mathematics and physics at Bristol University she came to Keynsham with her husband and two sons just before a by-pass was cut through the known precinct of Keynsham Abbey. Appalled by the destruction, she joined a group of volunteer archeologists from Bristol Folk House who have undertaken to record/rescue/salvage any remains of the abbey revealed by the bulldozers. In 1990 she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in recognition of her work in this sphere.

She is author and co-author of a number of local history and archaeological books, reports and articles including "The Decorated Medieval Floor Tiles of Somerset".

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