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London’s Waterfront 1100–1666: Excavations in Thames Street, London, 1974–84 (Paperback)
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London’s Waterfront 1100–1666: Excavations in Thames Street, London, 1974–84 (Paperback)
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London’s Waterfront 1100–1666: excavations in Thames Street,
London, 1974–84 presents and celebrates the mile-long Thames
Street in the City of London and the land south of it to the River
Thames as an archaeological asset. The argument is based on the
reporting of four excavations of 1974–84 by the Museum of London
near the north end of London Bridge: Swan Lane, Seal House, New
Fresh Wharf and Billingsgate Lorry Park. Here the findings of the
period 1100–1666 are presented. Buildings and property
development on sixteen properties south of Thames Street, on land
reclaimed in many stages since the opening of the 12th century,
include part of the parish church of St Botolph Billingsgate. The
many units of land reclamation are dated by dendrochronology, coins
and documents. They have produced thousands of artefacts and
several hundred kilos of native and foreign pottery. Much of this
artefactual material has been published, but in catalogue form
(shoes, knives, horse fittings, dress accessories, textiles,
household equipment). Now the context of these finds, their
deposition in groups, is laid out for the first time. Highlights of
the publication include the first academic analysis and assessment
of a 13th- or 14th-century trumpet from Billingsgate, the earliest
surviving straight trumpet in Europe; many pilgrim souvenirs;
analysis of two drains of the 17th century from which suggestions
can be made about use of rooms and spaces within documented
buildings; and the proposal that one of the skeletons excavated
from St Botolph’s church is John Reynewell, mayor of London in
1426–7 and a notable figure in London’s medieval history. The
whole publication encourages students and other researchers of all
kinds to conduct further research on any aspect of the sites and
their very rich artefactual material, which is held at the Museum
of London’s Archaeological Archive. This is a significantly large
and varied dataset for the archaeology and history of London in the
period 1100 to 1666 which can be continuously interrogated for
generations to come.
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