Conservation and Discovery: Peterborough cathedral Nave Ceiling and related Structures The quality and quantity of

The quality and quantity of the evidence from the second quarter of the 5th century is unsurpassed

Sue Hirst and Christopher Scull

Half a million years ago ice sheets pushed the Thames south

The defensive ditch was redug in the Late Saxon period and the Roman wall repaired

the first large-scale naval food supply base in Britain

Conservation and Discovery: Peterborough cathedral Nave Ceiling and related Structures The quality and quantity of2015 edited by Jackie Hall and Susan M Wright A major conservation programme took place between 1998 and 2003 on one of Europes greatest medieval painted wooden ceilings. Investigation and analysis were an integral part of this conservation work in the former Benedictine abbey church of Peterborough. The knowledge gained and the discoveries made during that time, as well as the conservation programme itself, are documented and fully illustrated here.