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Londinium: a new map and guide to Roman London
Londinium was founded by the Romans nearly 2000 years ago, shortly before AD 50. Roman London was built on a ‘green-field’ site which is now occupied by the City of London and north Southwark. The early frontier town was an immediate success and was occupied for almost four centuries. For...MOLA
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Early and Middle Saxon rural settlement in the London region
This monograph provides a long-awaited overview of the evidence for London’s Early and Middle Saxon rural settlement, which draws on the results of six decades of archaeological fieldwork, in addition to historical and place-name evidence. This indispensable synthesis of published and archive material includes accounts of 26 occupation sites and...Cowie, Robert ; Blackmore, Lyn
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The discovery of a Roman fort at Cripplegate, City of London: Excavations by W F Grimes 1947-68
When Grimes received a CBE for the discovery of the Temple of Mithras, he remarked that he was proud but wished that it had been in recognition of his work at Cripplegate – the discovery of the Mithraeum was ‘a fluke’. His initial objective at Cripplegate was to understand the...Shepherd, John
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Stepney Gasworks: the archaeology and history of the Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company's works at Harford Street, London E1, 1837-1946
The Commercial Gas Company set up its principal works in Stepney in the late 1830s and generated coal gas until the mid 20th century. As London expanded, the Stepney Works was transformed from a tiny site in rural surroundings into a massive industrial complex packed with buildings, including in 1864...Francis, Antony
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Holywell Priory and the development of Shoreditch to c1600: Archaeology from the London Overground East London Line
The upgrade and extension of the East London Line created an opportunity for archaeologists to discover more about Shoreditch. Archaeological investigations followed the proposed route and this volume examines the landscapes concealed beneath modern-day Shoreditch. Roman burials were discovered here, close to Ermine Street. The area was transformed in the...Bull, Raoul ; Davis, Simon ; Lewis, Hana ; Phillpotts, Christopher
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Archaeology of the Jubilee Line extension: prehistoric and Roman activity at Stratford Market Depot, West Ham, London, 1991-3
Excavation ahead of redevelopment by London Underground Limited uncovered flint tools and debitage characteristic of the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods and Early Bronze Age. Activity resumed in the Late Bronze Age. A neonate skeleton of Early Iron Age date was recovered from a rubbish pit near a probable roundhouse. Two...Hiller, J. ; Wilkinson, D. R. P.
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Late 17th- to 19th-century burial and earlier occupation at All Saints, Chelsea Old Church, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Excavations at 2–4 Old Church Street revealed prehistoric activity, a Roman rural settlement, and medieval gardens and domestic occupation associated with a medieval manor house, although most of the evidence for settlement related to the post-medieval period, when Chelsea changed from a village to a riverside resort and finally a...Cowie, Robert ; Bekvalac, Jelena ; Kausmally, Tania
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Development on Roman London's western hill: excavations at Paternoster Square, City of London
Redevelopment allowed reassessment of 1960s work and review of Roman activity on the western hill south of the main east–west road. Evidence of pre-Roman drainage towards the Fleet valley was overlain by the main road and external activity dated to c AD 50. Pre-Boudican strip buildings lay along the main...Watson, Sadie
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Tin-glazed tiles from London
Tin-glazed tiles from London looks at the rich diversity of decorative tile designs used in the capital over 400 years. Starting with Moorish- and Renaissance-style designs from Spain, the book traces the importation of decorative tiles from the Low Countries and their eventual manufacture in London itself. The early tiles...Betts, Ian M. ; Weinstein, Rosemary I.
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Three Ways Wharf, Uxbridge: a Lateglacial and Early Holocene hunter-gatherer site in the Colne valley
A series of five in situ lithic and faunal scatters in the Colne valley at Three Ways Wharf, Uxbridge, belong to two main phases of hunter-gatherer activity. The earlier, characterised by Late glacial bruised-edge ‘long blades’ associated with reindeer and horse, is dated to c 10,000 BP. The succeeding Early...Lewis, John C. S. ; Rackham, James C.