This report presents an overview of Roman urban development in
London south of the Thames. The establishment of the Roman bridge
and the first approach roads and landing places, made Southwark an
ideal location for the development of facilities for the
trans-shipment of goods between land and river. The wide range of
data from 41 previously unpublished north Southwark sites provides
the means for 'mapping' Roman activity in Southwark: the nature of
the early settlement, changing patterns of land use and broader
processes of social and economic change. Early land reclamation
preceded the establishment of a thriving trade centre involved in
the redistribution or marketing of locally processed and imported
goods, with evidence of a concentration of buildings burnt in
Boudican fire of AD 61 along the main road to the bridgehead.
Increased land reclamation and construction of more masonry
buildings in the 2nd century AD indicate further growth. By the 3rd
century large stone buildings at ten of the sites reported suggest
an administrative area housing official residences. After the mid
4th century the settlement contracted to the area immediately
around the bridgehead with a cemetery on previously occupied land
to the south.
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