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Conservation and Discovery: Peterborough cathedral Nave Ceiling and related Structures
A major conservation programme took place between 1998 and 2003 on one of Europe’s greatest medieval painted wooden ceilings. Investigation and analysis were an integral part of this conservation work in the former Benedictine abbey church of Peterborough. The knowledge gained and the discoveries made during that time, as well...Hall, Jackie ; Wright, Susan M.
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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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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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Roman and medieval revetments on the Thames waterfront: Excavations at Riverbank House, City of London 2006-9
A well-dated sequence of waterfront revetments at Riverbank House, just upstream of the medieval bridge, illustrates developments in the port of London from the 12th to the 15th centuries. Finds include tools, cloth seals and religious and secular badges. An exceptional item is a devotional openwork panel depicting scenes from...Mackinder, Anthony
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Medieval Haywharf to 20th-century brewery: excavations at Watermark Place, City of London
Substantial remains of the medieval city’s waterfront and related structures, together with a remarkable array of finds, were preserved in the waterlogged deposits on this site, allowing a reconstruction of waterfront development here from the 13th century onwards. Timber river walls and timber and stone dock walls were recorded, including...Fowler, Louise ; Mackinder, Anthony
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Roman occupation south-east of the forum: excavations at 20 Fenchurch Street, City of London, 2008-9
Excavations near the Roman forum on Londinium’s eastern hill (modern Cornhill) revealed archaeological evidence from the earliest period of London’s history. Intensive domestic occupation from c AD 50–5 was interrupted by the Boudican fire of AD 60/61 and construction of a temporary fort of c AD 63–85; possibly fort-related features...Wroe-Brown, Robin
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Romano-British round houses to medieval parish: excavations at 10 Gresham Street, City of London, 199-2002
The process of urbanisation north of the city’s main east–west road (beneath modern Cheapside) in the Roman and again in the medieval period is illustrated by an unusually full archaeological sequence. Round houses, and evidence for glass working in an Iron Age British tradition, in the AD 60s were superseded...Casson, Lindy ; Drummond-Murray, James ; Francis, Anthony
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Prehistoric to medieval landscape and settlement at Kemsley, near Sittingbourne, Kent: excavations 2003-5
The evolution of a rural landscape in north Kent is examined through the consideration of the results of two excavations on a site overlooking the marshes and tributaries of the River Medway, near Sittingbourne. A Late Bronze Age field system and a Middle Iron Age farmstead are described in detail,...Mackinder, Anthony