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Archaeology at Bloomberg
No full textThe construction in London of Bloomberg’s European headquarters provided an exciting opportunity for archaeologists to re-examine the site where the Roman temple of Mithras was discovered in the 1950s. Located at the heart of the Roman town and of the medieval and later City of London, the Bloomberg site has a rich heritage, stretching from the first years of Londinium to the present day. This book describes the spectacular archaeological discoveries made and tells the fascinating stories of Bloomberg through time and of the temple, now authentically reconstructed on its original site
Westenhanger Castle, Stanford, Kent - Integrated Site Report
No full textThe site, on land to the north of Westenhanger Castle (centred on OS NGR 612200 137500), was discovered and excavated as part of an extensive programme of archaeological investigations carried out in advance of the construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL). CTRL was built by London & Continental Railways Limited in association with Railtrack Group plc. The project was authorised by Parliament with the passage of the CTRL Act, 1996. The high-speed line runs for 109 km (68 miles) between St Pancras station in London and the Channel Tunnel and was built in two sections. Section 1 lies entirely within Kent and runs from Fawkham Junction (Gravesham) to Folkestone. The work was project managed by Rail Link Engineering (RLE).The Canterbury Archaeological Trust was initially commissioned to undertake a detailed archaeological investigation. This excavation followed on from an evaluation carried out by the Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS), and was itself succeeded by a watching brief undertaken by the Oxford Archaeological Unit (OAU). The location of the site is shown on Figure 1 and the details of the archaeological fieldwork events are given in Table 1
Cuxton, Kent - Integrated Site Report
No full textAs part of an extensive programme of archaeological investigation carried out in advance of the construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), the Museum of London Archaeology Service was commissioned to undertake the detailed excavation of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Cuxton in Kent (centre at OS NGR 572000 167350) following desk-based assessment and trial trenching. In the course of the excavation a concentration of later prehistoric archaeological features was also exposed and recorded. The excavation was carried out between July 1998 and September 1998, under the project management of Rail Link Engineering, on behalf of Union Railways (South) Limited (a subsidiary of London and Continental Railways)
Westwell Leacon, ARC WWL 98
No full textThe Museum of London Archaeology Service undertook an archaeological evaluation on the site of Westwell Leacon, to the south-east of Charing and to the north-west of Ashford, between the 11th and the 19th of August 1998. The excavation forms part of five evaluations which were added to the larger programme of archaeological investigations excavated in 1997 along the line of the future Channel Tunnel Rail Link. The aim was to assess the effect of construction of the new railway upon the cultural heritage. Four of the 23 trial trenches contained archaeological features: two features in 3253TT; a possible modern boundary and chalk footing in 3256TT; two ditches/drains in 3257TT; and a large ditch in 3263TT. No dates could be accurately established for the ditches
Knights Place Construction Site, ARC KCS 98
No full textAs part of a programme of archaeological investigation along the route of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Union Railways Limited (URL) commissioned the Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS) to undertake a trial-trenching evaluation between 20th-26th January 1998. The fieldwork was undertaken adjacent to Knights Place Farm, Cobham Park in the parish of Cobham, Kent and comprised thirteen trenches laid out in a single field (URL grid 50289 49266) (Figs 1 and 2). This site is one of three adjacent evaluations at Knights Place Farm; the other two being Cobham Park (ARC CPK 97) and Knights Place Farm (ARC KPF 98)
The Minories Eagle : a new sculpture from London’s eastern Roman cemetery
No full textThe limestone sculpture of an eagle firmly clasping a serpent in its beak was recovered from within the eastern Roman cemetery of London on the last day of excavations at 24–26 Minories, EC3 in September 2013. The sculpture, which is dated stylistically to the late first or early second century a.d., had been carefully buried within the backfill of a roadside ditch no later than the mid-second century. The Minories eagle is one of the finest and earliest examples of freestone sculpture from the London cemeteries and presumably adorned the tomb of a rich and important individual or family located nearby. Petrological analysis of the sculpture has revealed it is carved from oolitic limestone quarried from the south Cotswolds. The article presents the context of the findspot and a detailed description of the eagle sculpture with an in-depth discussion of the iconography of the image and the results of the petrological examination. The Supplementary Material available online (http://journals.cambridge.org/bri) presents an account of the site stratigraphy, integrated with the specialist finds and the environmental reports
Leacon Lane, ARC LLA 98
No full textThe Museum of London Archaeology Service undertook an archaeological evaluation on the site of Leacon Lane, to the south of Charing and to the north-west of Ashford, between the 27th of July and the 3rd of August 1998. The evaluation explored the area north-west of a site evaluated in 1997, ARC BWD 97, and forms part of a larger programme of archaeological investigations along the line of the future Channel Tunnel Rail Link, the aim of which is to assess the effect of the construction of the new railway upon the cultural heritage. Apart from natural geological deposits one archaeological feature, a pit with a burnt fill, was encountered in trench 3241TT. The only other disturbances below topsoil were caused by several ancient tree boles and a number of recent land drains
Scalers Hill to Cobham, ARC SCC 98
No full textThe Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS) was commissioned by Union Railways (South) Limited (URS) to undertake an archaeological evaluation, sitecode ARC SCC 98, between the 26th and 28th August 1998 and on 29th September 1998 on land to the south of the A2 in the parish of Cobham, Kent. The evaluation trenches were laid out in two blocks; Area 1 (eastern) and Area 2 (western). Area 1 (trenches 3395TT, 3396TT and 3588TT) was centred on URS grid 48045/49533 and sited between Brewers Road and the south side of the A2. Area 2 (trenches 3392TT and 3393TT) was centred on URS grid 47260/49705 and sited to the west of St Thomas's Well in a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)
Cobham Golf Course, Cobham, Kent - Integrated Site Report
No full textThe Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS) undertook a watching brief, and more detailed excavation at a number of sites of archaeological interest, on the section of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) between Scalers Hill and the A228, south of Gravesend, Gravesham District, Kent. The principal point of archaeological intervention was at Cobham Golf Course and this site name has been adopted to cover all of this section (Zone 5) of the route