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2019
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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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2015
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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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2015
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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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2015
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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