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Coffin plates : Recording and cataloguing the University of Reading collection of coffin plates from St Marylebone Church, Westminster
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Christ Church Spitalfields, Commercial Street, London E1: archaeological watching brief report
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Atherton Leisure Centre, 189 Romford Road, London Borough of Newham, E15 4JF, Report on Archaeological Evaluation
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St Marylebone's Paddington Street north burial ground: Excavations at Paddington Street, London W1 2012-13
No full textDuring the 18th century the expansion of the wealthy London parish of St Marylebone led to the development of two additional graveyards to relieve pressure on the church and churchyard on Marylebone High Street. The latest of these, on the north side of Paddington Street, was in use between 1772 and 1853. Archaeologists recorded 386 burials from 124 single, stacked and brick-lined graves at the western edge of this ground. The archaeological findings and detailed osteological analysis of 291 individuals are combined with documentary research to provide a fascinating account of a burial ground used predominantly by the middle and upper classes
The Spitalfields suburb 1539-c 1880: Excavations at Spitalfields Market, London E1, 1991-2007
No full textThis volume of the Spitalfields series covers the period from the closure of the medieval priory of St Mary Spital in the 1530s to the 19th century and reconnects the archaeological assemblages with documentary evidence in order to describe the early modern suburb, its people and their possessions. From the private mansions and artillery ground of the 16th century to London’s first terraced houses in the 1680s, and on to Spitalfields Market and the silk industry of the 18th and 19th centuries, the household economies and leisure activities of the residents are revealed, notably by the items discarded in their cesspits
