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New Court, Carey Street, London, WC2, Report on an Archaeological Evaluation
No full textUnpublished client repor
25-27 Dalston Lane London E8 3DF: Evaluation report
No full textA4 spiral bound site report with illustration
The stock-in-trade of a Parish Scavenger : an 18th-century community reflected in refuse from excavations at 9 and 11 Duke Street, London
No full textLundenwic: excavations in Middle Saxon London, 1987-2000
No full textThis monograph provides the first detailed overview of the archaeological evidence for the Middle Saxon trading port of Lundenwic, and presents the results of fieldwork at 18 locations on the site of the settlement. The evidence is contextualised in thematic essays on various aspects of the settlement including its origins and development, political and geographical setting, size and layout, food production and consumption, crafts and industry, trade and beliefs and superstition. The volume includes appendices on the artefacts and biological remains, data on a programme of radiocarbon dating designed to address questions about the development of Lundenwic, a gazetteer of sites and an historical timeline for the settlement and its hinterland
At the limits of Lundenwic: excavations in the north-west of Middle Saxon London at St Martin's Courtyard, 2007-8
No full textThis thought-provoking volume presents the results of the archaeological investigation of a large site in Lundenwic. A fragmentary sequence nevertheless includes possible Early Saxon activity, 7th- and 8th-century AD settlement features including a cookshop, a workshop for non-ferrous metalworking and debris from a smithy, and the latest radiocarbon-dated inhumation in Lundenwic (cal AD 720–950). These excavations have made important contributions to our understanding of Lundenwic, which has been enhanced by the unprecedented level of organic preservation at the site. The resulting survival of Saxon footwear, timber objects and uncharred botanical remains adds unusual detail to this publication
Religion in medieval London: the archaeology of belief
No full textReligious belief was central to the lives – and deaths – of all medieval Londoners. Archaeology sheds light on many aspects of that belief: from organised religion, both Christianity and Judaism, to superstition or witchcraft; places of worship, from the smallest parish churches to the great cathedral of St Paul; tiny objects of personal devotion to entire monastic landscapes. Monasteries include communities cut off from the world, hospitals providing for London’s poor and the headquarters of military brotherhoods active in the Crusades. Cemetery excavations reveal how Londoners responded to mortality both individually and together in the face of catastrophes such as the Black Death, while the events of the Reformation dramatically transformed both institutions and beliefs. This fully illustrated book summarises the evidence of belief from archaeological excavations in and around the capital
