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Connaught Tunnel (Crossrail XSY11)
This archive presents the results of a field evaluation carried out by the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) on the site of Connaught Tunnel, London E16, in the London Borough of Newham. The work was commissioned from MOLA by Crossrail Ltd. The sequence in the four trenches excavated is typified...MOLA
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MOLA Conventions, Attribute Definitions, and Validation Tables (Crossrail)
The files presented here provide additional documentation for the Crossrail site archives deposited by MOLA. MOLA Conventions and Attribute Definitions: The Conventions documents explain the structure of the spreadsheets forming part of this archive and the layer conventions for all AutoCAD documents. The Attribute Definitions expand on the Field Names...MOLA
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Moorgate Shaft, 91-109 Moorgate (Crossrail XSP10)
Several watching briefs and evaluations took place at Moorgate Shaft under the sitecode XSP10. The work was commissioned by Crossrail and carried out by MOLA.MOLA
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A 3rd century AD cremation cemetery at Franklands Drive, near Addlestone
Archaeological investigations on an open field site to the south-west of Addlestone revealed two foci of Middle-Late Bronze Age activity that involved the setting of pottery vessels in pits. A lone Late Iron Age unurned cremation burial was accompanied by an unusual North Gaulish Gallo-Belgic facet-cut barrel beaker, dated to...Howell, Isca J. ; Henderson, Michael
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Mesolithic, Iron Age and Saxon findings from excavations at Esher Park Avenue, Esher
An archaeological excavation at Esher Park Avenue, Esher revealed a 0.40m-thick layer of sand that produced some 1522 Early Mesolithic flints, including microlithic flint points, microburins and at least four core adze fragments and a scraper (c 9.3-9.0 ka BP). The flint assemblage suggests the presence of a discrete short-stay...Saxby, Dave
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Whither archaeologists? Continuing challenges to field practice
Current archaeological practice in the UK and elsewhere focuses on the collection of empirical data. While scholars have proposed theoretical advances in field techniques, very few of these methods have been adopted in commercial archaeology. A combination of increased time pressure on development projects and the conservatism of the sector...Watson, Sadie
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Prehistoric ploughing and post-medieval occupation at 7-9 Holland Street, Bankside, Southwark
In the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age the Holland Street site occupied a Thames flood plain eyot surrounded by tidal channels. It was fertile, well-drained, farmed land and fieldwork recovered ard marks, cut features, pottery and evidence of on-site flint working. In the later prehistoric period, the eyot became inundated...Saxby, Dave ; Francis, Antony
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Excavations at 78 Eden Street, Kingston upon Thames, 2016-17
An archaeological excavation took place at 78 Eden Street, Kingston upon Thames on the site formerly occupied by an 18th century Friends’ Meeting House that had been demolished in 2016, and an associated burial ground from which the burials had been exhumed. The excavation revealed evidence for a single Saxon...Good, O.