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Understanding Public Benefit from Development-led Archaeology
Dr Sadie Watson's UKRI Future Leader Fellowship is a multi-faceted research project, intended to assess and maximise public benefit provision from archaeological work that happens through the planning-led development system. Sadie worked closely throughout lockdown with Dr Harald Fredheim who led on this first phase of the research. This report...Fredheim, Harald ; Watson, Sadie
development, construction, public benefit, social value, and Archaeology
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Roman London's first voices: Writing tablets from the Bloomberg excavations, 2010-14
This publication presents research into Britain’s largest, earliest and most significant collection of Roman waxed writing tablets. The collection, which boasts the first hand-written document known from Britain, was discovered during archaeological excavations for Bloomberg. The formal, official, legal and business aspects of life in the first decades of Londinium...Tomlin, Roger S. O.
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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