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Sevington Railhead (North of), ARC SRH 97
As part of a programme of archaeological investigations along the route of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Union Railways Limited (URL) commissioned the Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS) to undertake an evaluation comprising eleven trial trenches situated in c.2.4ha. of land within the parish of Sevington, Kent, 3.5km south-east...MOLA
pitcher and evaluation
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Channel Tunnel Rail Link Section 1 - Watching Brief Area 330, Kent - Integrated Site Report
The Oxford Archaeological Unit was commissioned by Union Railways (South) Limited (URS) to monitor all earthworking operations with a potential archaeological impact within part of CTRL Project Area 350 and the whole of Project Area 410. This work formed part of an extensive programme of archaeological investigation and monitoring carried...MOLA
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Westwell Leacon, ARC WWL 98
The Museum of London Archaeology Service undertook an archaeological evaluation on the site of Westwell Leacon, to the south-east of Charing and to the north-west of Ashford, between the 11th and the 19th of August 1998. The excavation forms part of five evaluations which were added to the larger programme...MOLA
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Watling Street, ARC WS 98
Excavation of five trenches totalling 190 sq m at intervals along a 1km stretch of a modern road, Watling Street, Cobham, west of Rochester, Kent, in 1998, was commissioned by Union Railways (South) Limited and carried out by the Museum of London Archaeology Service. A post-medieval park pale or substantial...MOLA
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Tollgate, Gravesham, Kent - Integrated Site Report
The Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS) was commissioned by Union Railways (South) Limited (subsequently London and Continental Railways) to undertake a watching brief and detailed excavation between Wrotham Road and Scalers Hill, south of Gravesend, Gravesham, Kent, south of Gravesend, Kent. This work formed part of an extensive programme...MOLA
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Northumberland Bottom (West Of), ARC WNB 98
The Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS) was commissioned by Union Railways (South) Limited (URS) to undertake detailed archaeological investigations at Northumberland Bottom, south of Gravesend, Gravesham, Kent, in 1998. This work formed part of an extensive programme of archaeological investigation carried out in advance of the construction of the...MOLA
excavation and urn
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Cuxton Anglo-Saxon Burial, ARC CXT 97
As part of a larger programme of archaeological investigation along the route of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Union Railways Limited (URL) commissioned the Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS) to undertake a field evaluation at Cuxton. The site lay on land sloping down towards the River Medway to the...MOLA
evaluation and sherd
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Book
Spanning the Centuries: The historic bridges of Northamptonshire
This book, specially commissioned by Northamptonshire County Council (and written, designed and photographed by MOLA, with a Foreword by Tony Ciaburro of NCC), celebrates the rich diversity of the county’s historic bridges, specifically the 104 Listed by Historic England. There are many more within the county but these may be...Bowsher, Julian
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The New Churchyard: from Moorfields Marsh to Bethlem burial ground, Brokers Row and Liverpool Street
Archaeological investigations for Crossrail at Liverpool Street revealed the development of this area, from the medieval marsh of Moorfields to municipal, non-parochial, burial ground and later suburb. The New Churchyard, or ‘Bethlem’ as it was later known, was established after the severe plague of 1563 and was in use from...Hartle, Robert
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The Deptford royal dockyard and manor of Sayes Court, London: Excavations 2000-12
The largest-ever excavation of a naval dockyard revealed storehouses, docks, slipways, cover buildings, mast ponds, a smithy and other structures. These remains are integrated with maps and documents to chart the yard’s development, from its opening in the early 16th century to its closure in 1869. Countless ships – among...Francis, Antony
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A journey through time: Crossrail in the Lower Thames floodplain (Crossrail Archaeology)
The archaeology investigated along Crossrail’s south-east worksites across the Thames floodplain, from Stepney Green to Abbey Wood, tells the story of the lower Thames throughout the Holocene (from c 10,000 years ago to the present). Geoarchaeologists recorded the deep floodplain sediments at six sites along the route, providing the basis...Spurr, Graham
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The River's Tale': archaeology on the Thames foreshore in Greater London
The River Thames foreshore – London’s longest open-air archaeological site – provides evidence for past environments and structures from prehistory to the present, from fish traps to ferry points, barges to bridges. An army of dedicated volunteers working across Greater London with MOLA’s flagship community archaeology project, the Thames Discovery...Cohen, Nathalie ; Wragg, Eliott
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Outside Roman London: Roadside burials by the Walbrook stream
Excavations at Crossrail’s Broadgate ticket hall at Liverpool Street provided archaeological evidence for an area outside Roman London’s northern defences, a landscape dominated by a former tributary of the Walbrook stream. Drainage features were succeeded by an early 2nd- to 3rd-century AD road running west from Ermine Street towards the...Ranieri, Serena ; Telfer, Alison
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Journal article
Excavations at Moorgate Telephone Exchange, London EC2Y
Lewis, Hana
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Crosse and Blackwell 1830-1921: a British food manufacturer in London's West End
Excavation and building survey, related to the redevelopment of parts of Tottenham Court Road Underground Station by Crossrail Ltd, chart the history of food manufacturer Crosse and Blackwell in the Victorian and Edwardian periods until the 1922 move to Branston, Staffordshire. Operating from their 1838 premises in Soho Square, the...Jeffries, Nigel
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St Marylebone's Paddington Street north burial ground: Excavations at Paddington Street, London W1 2012-13
During the 18th century the expansion of the wealthy London parish of St Marylebone led to the development of two additional graveyards to relieve pressure on the church and churchyard on Marylebone High Street. The latest of these, on the north side of Paddington Street, was in use between 1772...Henderson, Michael ; Miles, Adrian ; Walker, Don
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The Old Welsh Bridge, Shrewsbury;Â excavations at the Severn Theatre venue, Frankwell, Shrewsbury, 2006
The Frankwell district of Shrewsbury grew up around the original bridgehead settlement on the banks of the River Severn. Geoarchaeological investigations have enhanced our understanding of the location of the 9th-century AD burh. The earliest evidence for occupation dates from the 10th century AD and the Welsh Bridge was constructed...Watson, Bruce ; Phillpotts, Christopher
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Glass working on the margins of Roman London: Excavations at 35 Basinghall Street, City of London 2005
New insights into the workings of Londinium’s glass industry and its craftsmen in the later 2nd century AD come from the analysis of over 70kg of broken vessel glass and production waste from a pit in a marginal area in the north-west of the Roman city, in the upper Walbrook...Wardle, Angela ; Freestone, Ian ; McKenzie, Malcolm ; Shepherd, John
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The Thames Iron Works 1837-1912: A Major Shipbuilder on the Thames (Crossrail Archaeology)
The Thames Iron Works and Shipbuilding Company, one of the great private enterprises of the Victorian age, launched some of the most famous warships of the time from its slipways at the mouth of the River Lea. A pioneer of shipbuilding in iron, the yard’s expertise was also deployed in...Harrison, Daniel
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Stepney Green: Moated Manor House to City Farm (Crossrail Archaeology)
Remains of a late medieval and Tudor moated mansion, Worcester House, were investigated on Crossrail’s Stepney Green shafts worksite. The early owners of this fine property were rich merchants and aristocrats, but by the late 17th century the estate passed into the hands of radical Nonconformists associated with the Stepney...Sankey, David
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Book
The evolution and exploitation of the Avon flood plain at Bath and the development of the southern suburb: Excavations at Southgate, Bath 2006-9
The SouthGate site lies between the River Avon and the southern defences of Roman and later Bath. This volume describes the evolution of the local Avon flood plain from the Pleistocene to the 20th century. Highlights include a large Early and Late Mesolithic lithic assemblage, Anglo-Saxon extramural activity, the Norman...Barber, Bruno ; Halsey, Craig ; Lewcun, Marek ; Phillpotts, Christopher
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An early Roman fort and urban development on Londinium's eastern hill: Excavations at Plantation Place, City of London, 1997-2003
This publication details the discovery and excavation in 1997–2003 at Plantation Place of a previously unknown Roman fort, on the edge of the early town. Built c AD 63 as a direct response to the sacking of Londinium by queen of the Iceni, Boudica, in AD 60/61, the formidable earthwork...Dunwoodie, Lesley ; Harward, Chiz ; Pitt, Ken
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Conservation and Discovery: Peterborough cathedral Nave Ceiling and related Structures
A major conservation programme took place between 1998 and 2003 on one of Europe’s 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...Hall, Jackie ; Wright, Susan M.
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The upper Walbrook valley cemetery of Roman London: Excavations at Finsbury Circus, City of London, 1987-2007
The unusual quantity of skulls found in the sediments of the Roman Walbrook stream in London has been attributed to a range of causes, from the disposal of massacre victims to the continuity of a largely imagined pre-Roman ‘cult of the head’. Excavations in Finsbury Circus offer a more prosaic...Harward, Chiz ; Powers, Natasha ; Watson, Sadie
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The Spitalfields suburb 1539-c 1880: Excavations at Spitalfields Market, London E1, 1991-2007
This volume of the Spitalfields series covers the period from the closure of the medieval priory of St Mary Spital in the 1530s to the 19th century and reconnects the archaeological assemblages with documentary evidence in order to describe the early modern suburb, its people and their possessions. From the...Harward, Chiz ; Holder, Nick ; Jeffries, Nigel
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Roman and medieval revetments on the Thames waterfront: Excavations at Riverbank House, City of London 2006-9
A well-dated sequence of waterfront revetments at Riverbank House, just upstream of the medieval bridge, illustrates developments in the port of London from the 12th to the 15th centuries. Finds include tools, cloth seals and religious and secular badges. An exceptional item is a devotional openwork panel depicting scenes from...Mackinder, Anthony
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Research report
98 Fetter Laneand12 Norwich Street, London EC4A 1EJ: Report on an archaeological watching brief
Unpublished client reportMOLA
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Research report
Community Centre and Estate Office, Avondale Square, London SE1: An archaeological watching brief report.
A4 report, with figuresMOLA
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Terrestrial Mineral Resource Assessment: Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes
The project wasundertaken by Museum of London Archaeology and Buckinghamshire County Council (BCC) and Milton Keynes Council (MKC), as part of the Terrestrial Minerals Resource Assessment (TMRA) administered by English Heritage. The aim of the project was to map past, current and future mineral extraction areas in Buckinghamshire and Milton...MOLA ; Buckinghamshire County Council ; Milton Keynes Council
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Terrestrial mineral resource assessment: Northamptonshire
The project was undertaken by Museum of London Archaeology and Northamptonshire County Council, as part of the Terrestrial Minerals Resource Assessment (TMRA) administered by English Heritage. The aim of the project was to map past, current and future mineral extraction areas in Northamptonshire; enhance HER data within such areas that...MOLA ; Northamptonshire County Council
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Assessment of archaeological resource in aggregate areas in Bath and North East Somerset
The project comprised an archaeological resource assessment of the aggregate producing areas of Bath and North-East Somerset (BANES). It was undertaken by Museum of London Archaeology in partnership with BANES District Council in 2010 and 2012, with funding from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund, as administered by English Heritage. The...MOLA
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West Berkshire Aggregate Resource Assessment
The aim of the project was to improve knowledge of the archaeological resource within all past, present and potential future aggregate producing areas in West Berkshire. The study will assist in strategic planning decisions regarding future aggregate extraction, the management of buried heritage assets and the setting out of research...MOLA