A joust viewing structure should be TILTYARD TOWER, which is already in the
EH thesaurus. There's an extant brick one at Hampton Court.
Kim Biddulph
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Evans [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 15 November 2004 16:04
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Sports grandstands
Yes the original request concerned recent grandstands mainly for
athletics. I suggested Olympus which did not go down well. I think time
team claimed a joust structure at ?Greenwich. There is certainly a
jousting area at Kenilworth Castle but I don't know if it has been
excavated.
Thank You
David Evans
Historic Environment Record Officer
01454 863649
>>> [log in to unmask] 15/11/2004 11:00:14 >>>
This is perhaps to stretch the definition a bit far and I presume you
are only interested in standing timber structures but, if the Dorset
Cursus is, as Stukeley suggested, a race track (it does appear to
deliberately include an obstacle, the scarp and natural pond near Down
Farm) then perhaps the banks on either side and the long barrows at
the
ends may have served as grandstands. Also what about henges, it has
been
suggested that spectators sat on the banks, separated from the ritual
area by the internal ditches- in which case Maumbury Rings would be
one
of the best examples, having been re-used in the Roman period for this
very purpose. More relevant to the question of timber grandstands
would
be the seating erected around other amphitheatres, temporary
structures
put up for medieval jousting (have any been identified?) and the
stands
erected in eighteenth and nineteenth century at race tracks and around
boxing rings - there are certainly pictorial representations of them.
Christopher Sparey-Green
-----Original Message-----
From: Issues related to Sites & Monuments Records
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Iles, Peter
Sent: 11 November 2004 11:42
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Sports grandstands
Try Jason Wood at [log in to unmask] he was involved in historic
sporting
grounds research.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Evans [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 11 November 2004 11:14
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Fwd: Re: Sports grandstands
I suspect one of us knows the answers to this question about
grandstands!
Thank You
David Evans
Historic Environment Record Officer
01454 863649
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