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Palace Wharf, Rainville Road, London W6: Archaeological evaluation report
A4 MOLA reportMOLA
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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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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
Handyside Park and Wharf Road (Transect C), Kings Cross Central, London N1, Strip and Map Excavation Report
A4 client reportMOLA
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Research report
2-4 Holywell Lane London EC2: An Archaeological Evaluation Report
Unpublished client report - A4 boundMOLA
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Dataset
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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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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Research report
Christ Church Spitalfields, Commercial Street, London E1: archaeological watching brief report
A4 MOLA reportMOLA
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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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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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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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Research report
Rolls Buildings Dropshaft, Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane, London EC4. A report on the archaeological watching brief
unpublished A4 client reportMOLA
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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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Research report
Transforming Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1: A report on the archaeological watching brief
Unpublished A4 reportMOLA
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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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Book
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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The Impact of the Railways in the East End, 1835-2010: Historical Archaeology from the London Overground East London Line
The upgrade and extension of the East London line and its incorporation into the London Overground network provided an opportunity to examine life in London’s inner city and suburban districts between the 19th and 21st centuries, and the impact that the railways had on life for Londoners from Dalston in...Dwyer, Emma
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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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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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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
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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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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
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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Religion in medieval London: the archaeology of belief
Religious belief was central to the lives – and deaths – of all medieval Londoners. Archaeology sheds light on many aspects of that belief: from organised religion, both Christianity and Judaism, to superstition or witchcraft; places of worship, from the smallest parish churches to the great cathedral of St Paul;...Barber, Bruno ; Thomas, Christopher ; Watson, Bruce
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Roman roadside settlement and rural landscape at Brentford: archaeological investigations at Hilton London Syon Park Hotel, 2004-10
Excavations in Syon Park, Brentford, have made a substantial contribution to our knowledge of this Roman rural settlement on the London–Silchester road, by a ford across the Thames. The site yielded a well-dated sequence – from the mid 1st to early 5th century AD – including occupation deposits and two...Cowie, Robert ; Thorp, Amy ; Wardle, Angela
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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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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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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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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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Book
At the limits of Lundenwic: excavations in the north-west of Middle Saxon London at St Martin's Courtyard, 2007-8
This thought-provoking volume presents the results of the archaeological investigation of a large site in Lundenwic. A fragmentary sequence nevertheless includes possible Early Saxon activity, 7th- and 8th-century AD settlement features including a cookshop, a workshop for non-ferrous metalworking and debris from a smithy, and the latest radiocarbon-dated inhumation in...Fowler, Louise ; Taylor, Ruth
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Disease in London, 1st-19th centuries: an illustrated guide to diagnosis
This book is designed to appeal to students and practitioners of osteology and paleopathology, medical historians and forensic archaeologists; it can be used as a reference guide in the field and the laboratory. Human health affects all aspects of everyday life and skeletal remains represent direct evidence of the experiences...Walker, Don
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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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Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men: excavations in the 19th-century burial ground of the London Hospital, 2006
In 2006, archaeological excavations in the grounds of the Royal London Hospital uncovered the remains of a burial ground used primarily for deceased but unclaimed patients. The buried population included at least 259 people who died between c 1825 and 1841. These were mostly adult and male, and many, prior...Fowler, Louise ; Powers, Natasha
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The Cistercian abbey of St Mary Graces, East Smithfield London
Founded in a time of war and pestilence by a renowned king, St Mary Graces, East Smithfield, was established in 1350 by Edward III on the site of a Black Death burial ground. This report presents the results of large-scale excavation in 1983–8 and post-excavation analysis of this, the last...Grainger, Ian ; Phillpotts, Christopher
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New Bunhill Fields burial ground, Southwark: excavations at Globe Academy, 2008
Documentary sources suggest that from c 1821–53 up to 33,000 burials may have taken place in the commercial Nonconformist burial ground at New Bunhill Fields, Southwark. Excavation of 827 wooden coffin burials in 2008 allows comparisons of the use of the burial ground, coffin furniture and burial finds with other...Miles, Adrian
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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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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 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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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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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
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The Hope playhouse, animal baiting and later industrial activity at Bear Gardens on Bankside
Southwark’s famous Bankside was long known as an entertainment area up to the 17th century. This volume provides evidence for the Barge, one of the medieval stewhouses (tavern/brothel) and the later Hope, a dual purpose building hosting animal baiting as well as play performances. The next phase in Bankside’s history...Mackinder, Anthony