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From Ice Age to Essex - A History of the People and Landscape of East London (Paperback)
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From Ice Age to Essex - A History of the People and Landscape of East London (Paperback)
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This book presents a short history of human habitation in East
London, based on archaeological findings at gravel sites between
1963 and 1999. To find the beginning of this story we have to go
back half a million years, to the time when advancing ice sheets
pushed the Thames southwards to its present course, depositing the
river gravels that exist across East London today. Archaeological
work on the East London gravels began when finds from gravel pits
were given to local collectors and museums. Many spectacular
discoveries were made in the era when gravel was dug by hand; they
include a Roman stone coffin found near Dagenham in 1928 and the
rich Early Saxon cemetery with glass drinking horns from Gerpin's
Pit, Rainham, uncovered in 1937. The archaeological sites which
make up this story have names which speak of a time before London's
urban sprawl reached eastwards: Manor Farm, Great Sunnings Farm,
Whitehall Wood, Great Arnold's Field and Fairlop Quarry, to name
but a few. Discoveries have revealed the ancient landscapes of East
London and a history of human occupation from the third millennium
BC right up to the 19th century. The finds include evidence of
where people lived, and how they made a living and viewed
themselves. These settlement patterns, economic systems and
cultural identities changed over time and contributed to the form
of today's East London.
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