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Acknowledgements

The Rutland Local History & Record Society gratefully acknowledges a contribution from the Friends of
Rutland County Museum & Oakham Castle towards the cost of printing this publication.

The editors wish to thank: John Barber’s family for permission to publish his manuscript memoir; Tim Clough,
former curator of Rutland County Museum and Honorary Editor, Rutland Local History & Record Society, for
editorial advice; Mike Frisby for help with conversion of the original computer text files; Bryan Waites for his
encouragement and advice; Deborah Sawday, freelance post-Roman ceramic specialist, for the identification of
the excavated pottery and ridge tile; Lorraine Cornwell, Rutland County Museum, for permission to publish
photographs from the Jack Hart Collection of Picture Postcards and the John Barber Archive, and also for
assistance in preparing material for this publication; the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland
(ROLLR) for permission to publish extracts from Oakham Enclosure map and Cullingworth’s map; the
Leicestershire Archaeological & Historical Society, the Society for Medieval Archaeology, the Royal
Archaeological Institute and Oakham School Archives for permission to reproduce archaeological reports from
their publications; The National Archives for permission to reproduce the extract from the inquisition of 1340
(Appendix E), and Vanessa Doe and Jeremy Ryder for their assistance in transcribing and translating it; and
the Society of Antiquaries of London for permission to quote from the obituary notice for John Barber.

All additional photographs and other illustrations are by the editors unless otherwise acknowledged.

Elaine Jones and Robert Ovens

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