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Documents relating to the excavation of Clarendon Palace

Reference code
CLP
Title
Documents relating to the excavation of Clarendon Palace
Date
1933-66
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and format
Unbound papers in a black folder.
Scope and content
Papers relating to the excavations, 1933-9, at Clarendon Palace, near Salisbury, Wilts., by Professor Tancred Borenius, FSA, and John Charlton, FSA, with later correspondence.

Consists of:- (1) Six lectures (at SA, 1933-9) by Professor Borenius relating to 1933-8 excavations. Typescript;- (2) Two lectures by John Charlton relating to 1937-8 excavations. Typescript;- (3) Correspondence, 1958-66, mainly with Mary Edmonds (Balfour), FSA, relating to lack of progress in publication, etc.;- (4) Photographic copy of Dr N. Pevsner's groundplan, 1937 (fig. 9 in Research report 45).

See T. B. James and A. M. Robinson, Clarendon Palace (SA Research Report 45 (1988)).
Creator
Borenius, Carl Tancred (1885-1948), art historian
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/826
Archival history
Collected by Dr Arnold Taylor, CBE, PSA, from John Charlton, FSA. A related collection of slides was transferred to the National Monuments Record, 1982.