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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 2nd-century
timber buildings destroyed by fire, as well as details of the main
road and adjacent field system. These and a large assemblage of
finds, including a surgical instrument and a roundel depicting the
Medusa, provide a rare glimpse of life in the countryside in the
hinterland of Londinium. A detailed overview of Roman Brentford
(the first to be published since 1978) is included.
Excavations on the south side of Cheapside found evidence for Roman
timber buildings and pits dating to the later 1st and 2nd centuries
AD, and a masonry building constructed after c AD 125. The main
west-east road through Londinium lay immediately north of the site.
Evidence for later Roman occupation was limited by modern
truncation. No medieval ground surfaces survive, but the site was
reoccupied from the 10th century with at least one substantial
building existing by the 13th century. Pit and well groups include
late 13th- or early 14th-century vessels associated with the wine
trade and early 14th-century kitchenware.
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