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A programme of archaeological and historical investigation was therefore developed, funded by Carlisle City Council, the Department of the Environment (now Historic England), the Manpower Services Commission, the Marc Fitch Fund, and the Society of Antiquaries of London, undertaken between 1978 and 1982. Historic England also provided substantial funding for post-excavation analysis and publication of the project’s results. To this day, the Lanes retains its position as one of the largest and most significant urban archaeological projects ever undertaken in northern England.The project was split into two parts in post-excavation, the northern and southern Lanes, the results of the latter being published in 2000. The current volume presents the evidence for the medieval and post-medieval periods, including the development of the lanes which remained in active use up until their demolition shortle after recording for this volume. Good preservation of waterlogged organic materials was a feature of the earlier levels, which yielded a wealth of environmental information and many artefacts of wood and leather. 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The hall is thought to have been fully aisled, with a steeply-pitched hipped roof, but all the timbers from this phase were found re-used in secondary positions, so that many aspects of the building's form and appearance remain uncertain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late medieval period it is probable that the aisles were removed, with new timber¬framing built below the arcade-plates. A clay floor found by excavation either relates to the modified hall, or to an earlier structure. 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Its earliest buildings were of timber, probably erected to house both the canons and the vast army of workmen needed to build such a fine Romanesque monastery. By the end of the twelfth century, the stone buildings of the monastery were not only complete, but were being expanded to accommodate more members of the order. 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This work centred on the areas of Mann Island, Pier Head, and the Central Docks, all places that either fall within, or are directly adjacent to, the Liverpool-Maritime Mercantile City World Heritage Site, and it formed a prelude to the construction of a commercial development and the Museum of Liverpool, and also the extension of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The investigations uncovered numerous remains relating to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century dock building and land reclamation, as well as concomitant evidence for the use and occupation of the waterfront, and the wider town, during these periods. The archaeological evidence has been complemented by detailed historical research, which together provide significant insights into the dynamic and evolving system of dock and quayside development, occurring between the early eighteenth and early twentieth centuries. This development was integral to Liverpool's wider history, and the archaeological remains reflect the port's nascent post-medieval growth, commercial zenith during the nineteenth century, and eventual twentieth-century decline, prior to the extensive schemes of urban regeneration which now characterise the present-day waterfront. 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