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Cobham Golf Course, Cobham, Kent - Integrated Site Report
The Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS) undertook a watching brief, and more detailed excavation at a number of sites of archaeological interest, on the section of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) between Scalers Hill and the A228, south of Gravesend, Gravesham District, Kent. The principal point of archaeological...MOLA
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Yonsea Farm, ARC YFM 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 of six trial trenches situated at Yonsea Farm. The farm is 3.5km to the north-west of the...MOLA
tile and evaluation
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Tollgate (West of) ARC TGW 97
As part of an extensive programme of environmental mitigation measures associated with the construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, a series of archaeological investigations have been commissioned by Union Railways Limited (URL). The Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS) has undertaken a number of these archaeological field evaluations along...MOLA
bowl and evaluation
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Northumberland Bottom, Gravesend, Kent - Integrated Site Report
As part of an extensive programme of archaeological investigations carried out in advance of the construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), the Museum of London Archaeology Service was commissioned to undertake archaeological recording to the west of Northumberland Bottom, Southfleet, in Kent. The excavation areas lie c.1.5 km...MOLA
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Cuxton, Kent - Integrated Site Report
As part of an extensive programme of archaeological investigation carried out in advance of the construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), the Museum of London Archaeology Service was commissioned to undertake the detailed excavation of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Cuxton in Kent (centre at OS NGR 572000 167350)...MOLA
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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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Research report
Asda Supermarket: petrol filling station, 464-504 Old Kent Road London SE1
unpublished client reportMOLA
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Research report
National Physical Laboratory, Bushy Road, Teddington, London TW11: Report on an archaeological evaluation
Unpublished client reportMOLA
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Research report
St John The Baptist Church, Croydon Minster, Church Street, Croydon CR0
unpublished client reportMOLA
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Research report
St George's Memorial Chapel, Biggin Hill Airport, London TN16: Report on an archaeological watching brief
A4 client reportMOLA
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Research report
Fishmongers' Hall Wharf, London EC4R: Archaeological watching brief report
Unpublished client reportMOLA
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Research report
82 Borough High Street, London SE1 1LL, Report on an archaeological watching brief and excavation
A4 client reportMOLA
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Research report
1 Finsbury Avenue, London EC2: Standing building survey report
Unpublished client reportMOLA
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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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Book
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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Book
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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Book
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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Book
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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Book
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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Book
Archaeology at Bloomberg
The construction in London of Bloomberg’s European headquarters provided an exciting opportunity for archaeologists to re-examine the site where the Roman temple of Mithras was discovered in the 1950s. Located at the heart of the Roman town and of the medieval and later City of London, the Bloomberg site has...MOLA
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Journal article
From the Spreadsheet to the Table? Using 'spot-dating' level pottery records from Roman London to explore functional trends among open vessel forms
Intensive excavation and research over the course of decades have produced a very large dataset relating to Roman pottery from London. Research into the function of specific vessel forms has rarely been undertaken but information about the size, shape, fabric and condition of vessels recorded during routine identification and quantification...Marshall, Michael ; Seeley, Fiona
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Journal article
Saxon London : milestones and challenges
Cowie, Robert
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Research report
No.1 Canon Row, City of Westminster, London SW1A 2JN: Report on an archaeological watching brief
A4 bound client reportMOLA
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Research report
40 Bermondsey Street, 42-44 Bermondsey Street and 1-7 Snowsfields, London SE1: Pre-determination Evaluation Report
An A4 unpublished client reportMOLA
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Research report
Guildhall Yard and Surrounding Area: Security, London EC2V, Report on an archaeological watching brief
A4 bound client reportMOLA
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Research report
Guildhall Yard and Surrounding Area: Security, London EC2V, Report on a phase 2 archaeological watching brief
A4 bound client reportMOLA
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Research report
Former U.S. Embassy, 30 Grosvenor Square, City of Westminster, London W1K: An Archaeological Standing Building Report
Unpublished A4 Client ReportMOLA
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Research report
Leys Redevelopment Site, Wellington Drive, Dagenham, London RM10. Post-excavation assessment and updated project design
A4 client reportMOLA
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Research report
21 Moorfields, London EC2: Report on an archaeological watching brief
A4 unpublished client reportMOLA
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Research report
25 and 25A Oakleigh Road North, London N20: Report on an archaeological evaluation
A4 ringbound client reportMOLA
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The Prittlewell princely burial: excavations at Priory Crescent, Southend-on-Sea, Essex 2003
In 2003 MOLA archaeologists carried out an evaluation of a site in Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, known to be the location of Roman burials and an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery, and discovered an intact Anglo-Saxon princely burial along with up to three further Anglo-Saxon inhumations, and limited evidence of prehistoric and Roman...MOLA
evaluation and burial
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Research report
Guildhall Yard Security Bollards, London EC2V: Report on an archaeological excavation
A4 client reportMOLA
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Research report
40 Bermondsey Street, 42-44 Bermondsey Street and 1-7 Snowsfields, London SE1
A4 unpublished client reportMOLA
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Eleanor Street Shaft (Crossrail XTJ13)
This archive presents the results of an archaeological evaluation carried out by Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) on the site of the Eleanor Street Shaft, within the area known as the Bow Triangle, London E3, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Overlying the natural terrace gravels in evaluation Trench...MOLA
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Stepney Green (Crossrail XRV10)
Stepney Green Shaft - Evaluation and Site monitoring exposed small prehistoric truncated features with very abraded late Bronze Age or Iron Age pot (not retained). There were NO Roman or earlier medieval finds. Substantial remains of Worcester House, including brick foundations of King John's Tower, a late 15th-c or 16th-c...MOLA
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Limmo Peninsula (Crossrail XRW10)
Four phases of archaeological excavation (two general watching briefs, an evaluation with two trenches and a targeted watching brief) carried out at the site of Crossrail Limmo Peninsula Shaft by the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA), between 09/08/10 to 03/12/10. 20th-century made ground (10m OD) on structural remains of 19th-20th-century...MOLA
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Service Diversion VDP, Victoria Dock Road, Seagull Lane (Crossrail XSX11)
Archaeological watching briefs carried out by the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) on the Crossrail Victoria Dock Portal worksite, which consisted of utilities diversions centred around Victoria Dock Road and Seagull Road. Generally, trenches were excavated to a depth of 2.0m. Natural terrace gravels were overlain by thick peat deposits...MOLA
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Farringdon Station, Minor Works and Utility Diversions, Hayne Street (Crossrail XSF10)
Combined general and targeted watching briefs were carried out at the site of Crossrail Farringdon Eastern ticket Hall by the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA). Natural gravels were not exposed at Formation level (15.10m OD) . Disarticulated human remains (probably associated with the medieval burial ground in Charterhouse Square) were...MOLA
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Ham and Wick Sewer Protection (Crossrail XTH12)
Monitoring of works for two sewer diversion shafts revealed only truncated natural London Clay(in the Wick sewer access chamber, near the cutting for the Blackwall Tunnel approach road and truncated natural gravels(in the Ham sewer access chamber west of Wick Lane. No archaeological remains were observed on either site and...MOLA
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Custom House Station, Victoria Dock Road (Crossrail XTI13)
4 trial trenches and two window samples exposed former wood peat (intrepreted to be the former backswamp area of the Thames Floodplain) overlying late Pleistocene Shepperton Gravels. Above the peat was estuarine influenced alluvial clay.MOLA
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Liverpool Street Worksite, Liverpool Street (Crossrail XSM10)
This archive presents the results of an archaeological investigation by MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) at the site of the Crossrail Central Broadgate Ticket Hall, Liverpool Street, London EC2M, City of London (Museum of London (MoL) sitecode XSM10). The fieldwork comprised a series of watching briefs (targeted and general), evaluations...MOLA
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Tottenham Court Road (Crossrail TCG09)
The Tottenham Court Road archive includes data from both field evaluation and building recording. A group of non-Listed buildings located to the south of the Astoria Theatre were recorded in December 2009 prior to demolition. The earliest building was formally a 19th-century brick-built warehouse (constructed 1877-85 by R L Roumieu...MOLA
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Blomfield Street Phase 2 Mitigation, 11-12 Blomfield Street (Crossrail XTB12)
The archaeological work on site consisted of three separate interventions: an excavation in the area of the grout box, a targeted watching brief on the area of the Main box, and a general watching brief during ground reduction of the rest of the site. The excavation of the grout shaft...MOLA
excavation and stone
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Pudding Mill Lane (Crossrail XSK10)
A watching brief was carried out under Crossrail contract C261 Archaeology Early East, three boreholes and seven trial pits all within the confines of the Bulk Supply Point, Pudding Mill Lane were investigated. Natural geology in the form of Shepperton/Lea Valley Gravel was recorded across the site in the boreholes....MOLA
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Farringdon Eastern Ticket Hall, Phase 2 Mitigation, Hayne Street (Crossrail XTE12)
A series of investigations were undertaken at the site of the new Farringdon Eastern Ticket Hall (ETH) and the surrounding streets between 2011 and 2013, culminating in a phase of excavation located in the north-east of the site. In addition two trenches were excavated within the gardens of Charterhouse Square...MOLA
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Service Diversion North of Woolwich Portal, Albert Road, Factory Road (Crossrail XSV11)
A general watching brief was undertaken by MOLA at the North Woolwich Portal worksite which consisted of utilities diversions centred around Albert Road and Factory Road. This work was undertaken as part of a wider programme of assessment to quantify the archaeological implications of railway development proposals along the Crossrail...MOLA
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Plumstead Portal (Crossrail XSW11)
This archive describes the archaeological evaluation and watching brief work carried out at the Plumstead Portal site by the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA). The North Woolwich portal is located within the existing railway corridor of the former North London Line (NLL), between Factory Road and Albert Road, in the...MOLA
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Whitechapel Station (Crossrail XSH10)
Three evaluation trenches were opened at the Cambridge Heath worksite (located to the E of Brady Street, TQ 3486 8195), while watching briefs were conducted at both that site and the Essex Wharf worksite (on the N side of Durward Street, TQ 3461 8196). Natural Taplow terrace gravels were recorded...MOLA
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Blomfield Worksite, Liverpool Street, 11-12 Blomfield Street, EC2 (Crossrail XSL10)
Three trenches were excavated in the basement of the now-demolished 11 and 12 Blomfield Street and rearward extensions. Natural gravels were exposed in two trenches. In the E of the site, natural deposits were cut by a series of sterile waterlain clays sloping from W-E, probably from a relatively fast...MOLA
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Journal article
An important 16th-century finds assemblage from ‘Moorfields’, Liverpool Street, London
Excavation at Liverpool Street, London, for Crossrail Limited, uncovered two large drains and a pit in an area of the city known since the medieval period as ‘Moorfields’. Their fills can be closely dated to the mid 16th century and included artefacts such as personal possessions, domestic utensils and refuse,...Cubitt, Rachel S. ; Hartle, Robert ; Marshall, Michael ; Richardson, Beth ; Allison, Enid …
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City Wall at Old Broad Street (Crossrail XSZ11)
Archaeological watching brief on Crossrail utility diversions at Old Broad Street in the predicted location of the City Wall (Scheduled Monument LO26N). A trench (19.00m long x 0.60 to 1.00m wide) was dug to install new utility ducts, and was between 0.45 to 0.80m deep. The trench was located at...MOLA
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Finsbury Circus, Liverpool Street (Crossrail XRZ10)
Two phases of archaeological excavation (two general watching briefs and one evaluation with one trench) were carried out at the site of Crossrail Finsbury Circus Shaft by the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA), between 11/03/11 to 01/04/11. 19th-century garden soil horizons overlying post-medieval dumps were recoreded at a maximum depth...MOLA
ceramic and evaluation
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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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Journal article
Phylogeography of the second plague pandemic revealed through analysis of historical Yersinia pestis genomes
The second plague pandemic, caused by Yersinia pestis, devastated Europe and the nearby regions between the 14th and 18th centuries AD. Here we analyse human remains from ten European archaeological sites spanning this period and reconstruct 34 ancient Y. pestis genomes. Our data support an initial entry of the bacterium... -
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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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Journal article
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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Journal article
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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Journal article
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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Journal article
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.
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Book
The Prittlewell princely burial: excavations at Priory Crescent, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 2003
This internationally important, late 6th-century AD princely burial was discovered in 2003 at Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, within an existing early Anglo-Saxon cemetery. Detailed research, scientific analyses and investigative conservation since have produced exciting new information, enabling the reconstruction of the large wooden chamber grave and the coffin of a man...Blackmore, Lyn ; Blair, Ian ; Hirst, Sue ; Scull, Christopher
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Book
A Bronze Age barrow cemetery at Andover Airfield, Penton Mewsey, near Weyhill, Hampshire: excavations 2007-10
Archaeological excavation by MOLA on a chalk downland site near Andover revealed funerary activity from the Chalcolithic (‘Beaker’) period to the Late Bronze Age. A single inhumation became the focus for later cremation burials; these were succeeded by two isolated barrows and a barrow cemetery, which in turn attracted further...Howell, Isca
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Book
The Anglo-Saxon princely burial at Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea
This fully illustrated account of the princely burial at Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, summarises the results of intensive research, studying the excavated evidence from the intact and lavishly furnished burial chamber. The man who was buried there at the end of the 6th century AD was evidently a Christian but accompanied...Blackmore, Lyn ; Blair, Ian ; Hirst, Sue ; Scull, Christopher
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Book
The medieval priory and hospital of St Mary Spital and the Bishopsgate suburb: excavations at Spitalfields Market, London E1, 1991-2007
Spitalfields Market was the the site of the Augustinian priory and hospital of St Mary without Bishopsgate, later known as St Mary Spital. Large areas of the medieval precinct have been explored, making this by far the most intensively investigated medieval hospital – and one of the most extensively investigated...Harward, Chiz ; Holder, Nick ; Phillpotts, Christopher ; Thomas, Christopher
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Book
Knole revealed: archaeology and discovery at a great country house
Over the past decade, Knole has undertaken the biggest conservation project in the National Trust, supported by a generous grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. In order to conserve the internationally significant collections housed at the property, major work has been carried out on the fabric and environment of...Cohen, Nathalie ; Parton, Frances ; Parton
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Research report
St Mary Magdalene Church, Paradise Road, London TW9: report on an archaeological watching brief
A4 client report with figs and photosMOLA
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MSR08 Marshall Street Publication data tables
PDF of Data Tables referred to in the publication of Marshall Street (site code MSR08).MOLA
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Dataset
MSR08 Marshall Street Osteology data
Excel spreadsheet with osteological data from Marshall Street excavations (site code MSR08).MOLA
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MSR08 Marshall Street Osteology metadata
Excel spreadsheet with conventions and list of values describing the Marshall Street Osteology data (site code MSR08).MOLA
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Book
Parishioner and pauper burials from St James Westminster (1695–1790), Excavations at Marshall Street, London W1, 2008–9
In the 17th to 18th century the expansion of the population of the parish of St James Westminster led to the development of two new burial grounds (1695–1733 and 1733–90), along with the new workhouse complex (1725–1913) and the workhouse burial ground (1733–93). From the three burial areas archaeologists recorded...MOLA