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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.
This volume examines the evolution of a rural landscape in north
Kent from the Late Mesolithic (c 7500 BC) to the 19th century, as
revealed by analysis of the results of excavation on a site
overlooking the marshes and tributaries of the River Medway, near
Sittingbourne. Particular emphasis is placed on the prehistoric
pottery assemblage and on understanding the site in terms of local
and regional developments. Slight evidence for Late Mesolithic and
Neolithic activity (residual finds only) was followed by the
creation of a field system. This was well established by the Late
Bronze Age, when pitting and refuse disposal suggests the presence
of a nearby settlement. There are inconclusive indications from
associated pottery that some field boundaries may have had Middle
Bronze Age origins and that some structured deposition was taking
place. A period of abandonment, possibly related to rising sea
levels, preceded the construction of a Middle Iron Age unenclosed
farmstead represented by four roundhouses constructed at some time
after c 300 BC and the re-establishment of a field system. The
local field boundaries were reorganised in the Late Iron Age, and
remained in use during the 1st century AD, but were abandoned
thereafter, with no archaeological evidence for subsequent land use
until a new farm was established in the 11th to mid 13th centuries.
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.
An essential survey for all interested in the pottery of the London
area, this study charts the development, peak and decline of two
ceramic traditions: the shelly wares of c 1140-1220, mainly
city-based but reaching Scotland and across the North Sea to
Norway, and the greywares of c 1170-1350, widely used in the city
and even more so in its hinterland. In addition to fabric analyses,
form typologies, a gazetteer of find spots and scientific data, the
study includes a summary of greyware production centres, and
considers function, use, marketing of medieval pottery and the
chronology of selected consumer sites in London and its region.
Until now the evidence for London's Early and Middle Saxon rural
settlement and economy has received scant attention. This monograph
provides a long-awaited overview of the subject, drawing on the
results of six decades of archaeological fieldwork since the war,
in addition to historical and place-name evidence. Some of the
material has been published before and will be familiar to the
reader, but much of it has only been available as site archives or
unpublished reports, and at best briefly summarised as notes in
excavation round-ups. This synthesis therefore forms an
indispensible guide to researchers. The first part focuses on
twenty-six sites and six fish traps across the region, followed by
thematic sections on a range of topics, and then a final section on
the pottery finds. Price approx.
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