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A Roman Drainage Culvert Great Fire Destruction Debris And Other Evidence From Hillside Sites North East Of London Bridge
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Book Synopsis A Roman Drainage Culvert, Great Fire Destruction Debris and Other Evidence from Hillside Sites North-east of London Bridge by : Ian M. Blair
Download or read book A Roman Drainage Culvert, Great Fire Destruction Debris and Other Evidence from Hillside Sites North-east of London Bridge written by Ian M. Blair and published by Mola (Museum of London Archaeology). This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two 1998 excavations provide important new evidence of Roman and later development on the terraced ground north of the Thames and south of Cornhill. The Monument House site lay just north-east of the Roman bridgehead, immediately behind river quays and warehouses. First-century landscaping and gravel quarries were followed by timber buildings. Early 3rd-century redevelopment included a substantial masonry building and a subterranean drainage culvert which carried dirty water south from Cornhill to the Thames. It remained in use until the mid 4th century AD and has been preserved in situ beneath the new development. At 13-21 Eastcheap early buildings were sealed by Hadrianic fire debris. Rebuilding included timber drains and fragmentary masonry buildings. Later reoccupation at Monument House included a 10th-century AD sunken-floored building and medieval properties. A large 15th-century tenement east of Botolph Lane and north of Cat Lane was remodelled before destruction in the Great Fire. The finds assemblage includes rare ironwork, an ornate fireplace and decorated tiles. At 13-21 Eastcheap isolated medieval pits contained animal bone possibly related to Eastcheap's role as a centre of butchery.
Book Synopsis Londinium: A Biography by : Richard Hingley
Download or read book Londinium: A Biography written by Richard Hingley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** Winner of the PROSE Award (2019) for Classics *** This major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a detailed overview of the city from before its foundation in the first century to the fifth century AD. Richard Hingley explores the archaeological and historical evidence for London under the Romans, assessing the city in the context of its province and the wider empire. He explores the multiple functions of Londinium over time, considering economy, industry, trade, status and urban infrastructure, but also looking at how power, status, gender and identity are reflected through the materiality of the terrain and waterscape of the evolving city. A particular focus of the book is the ritual and religious context in which these activities occurred. Hingley looks at how places within the developing urban landscape were inherited and considers how the history and meanings of Londinium built upon earlier associations from its recent and ancient past. As well as drawing together a much-needed synthesis of recent scholarship and material evidence, Hingley offers new perspectives that will inspire future debate and research for years to come. This volume not only provides an accessible introduction for undergraduate students and anyone interested in the ancient city of London, but also an essential account for more advanced students and scholars.
Book Synopsis London in the Roman World by : Dominic Perring
Download or read book London in the Roman World written by Dominic Perring and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: incAn original, authoritative survey of the archaeology and history of Roman London. London in the Roman World draws on the results of latest archaeological discoveries to describe London's Roman origins. It presents a wealth of new information from one of the world's richest and most intensively studied archaeological sites, and a host of original ideas concerning its economic and political history. This original study follows a narrative approach, setting archaeological data firmly within its historical context. London was perhaps converted from a fort built at the time of the Roman conquest, where the emperor Claudius arrived to celebrate his victory in AD 43, to become the commanding city from which Rome supported its military occupation of Britain. London grew to support Rome's campaigning forces, and the book makes a close study of the political and economic consequences of London's role as a supply base. Rapid growth generated a new urban landscape, and this study provides a comprehensive guide to the industry and architecture of the city. The story, traced from new archaeological research, shows how the city was twice destroyed in war, and suffered more lastingly from plagues of the second and third centuries. These events had a critical bearing on the reforms of late antiquity, from which London emerged as a defended administrative enclave only to be deserted when Rome failed to maintain political control. This ground-breaking study brings new information and arguments to our study of the way in which Rome ruled, and how the empire failed.
Book Synopsis London’s Waterfront 1100–1666: Excavations in Thames Street, London, 1974–84 by : John Schofield
Download or read book London’s Waterfront 1100–1666: Excavations in Thames Street, London, 1974–84 written by John Schofield and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book 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. Four Museum of London excavations of 1974–84 are presented: Swan Lane, Seal House, New Fresh Wharf and Billingsgate Lorry Park. Here the findings of the period 1100–1666 are presented.
Book Synopsis Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 38 by : Malcolm Godden
Download or read book Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 38 written by Malcolm Godden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-Saxon England was the first publication to consistently embrace all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - and which promotes the more unusual interests - in music or medicine or education, for example. Articles in volume 38 include: The Passio Andreae and The Dream of the Rood by Thomas D. Hill, Beowulf off the Map by Alfred Hiatt, Numerical Composition and Beowulf: A Re-consideration by Yvette Kisor, 'The Landed Endowment of the Anglo-Saxon Minster at Hanbury (Worcs.) by Steven Bassett, Scapegoating the Secular Clergy: The Hermeneutic Style as a Form of Monastic Self-Definition by Rebecca Stephenson, Understanding Numbers in MS London, British Library Harley by Daniel Anlezark, Tudor Antiquaries and the Vita 'dwardi Regis by Henry Summerso and Earl Godwine's Ship by Simon Keynes and Rosalind Love. A comprehensive bibliography concludes the volume, listing publications on Anglo-Saxon England during 2008.
Book Synopsis Citadel of the Saxons by : Rory Naismith
Download or read book Citadel of the Saxons written by Rory Naismith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a past as deep and sinewy as the famous River Thames that twists like an eel around the jutting peninsula of Mudchute and the Isle of Dogs, London is one of the world's greatest and most resilient cities. Born beside the sludge and the silt of the meandering waterway that has always been its lifeblood, it has weathered invasion, flood, abandonment, fire and bombing. The modern story of London is well known. Much has been written about the later history of this megalopolis which, like a seductive dark star, has drawn incomers perpetually into its orbit. Yet, as Rory Naismith reveals – in his zesty evocation of the nascent medieval city – much less has been said about how close it came to earlier obliteration. Following the collapse of Roman civilization in fifth-century Britannia, darkness fell over the former province. Villas crumbled to ruin; vital commodities became scarce; cities decayed; and Londinium, the capital, was all but abandoned. Yet despite its demise as a living city, memories of its greatness endured like the moss and bindweed which now ensnared its toppled columns and pilasters. By the 600s a new settlement, Lundenwic, was established on the banks of the River Thames by enterprising traders who braved the North Sea in their precarious small boats. The history of the city's phoenix-like resurrection, as it was transformed from an empty shell into a court of kings – and favoured setting for church councils from across the land – is still virtually unknown. The author here vividly evokes the forgotten Lundenwic and the later fortress on the Thames – Lundenburgh – of desperate Anglo-Saxon defenders who retreated inside their Roman walls to stand fast against menacing Viking incursions. Recalling the lost cities which laid the foundations of today's great capital, this book tells the stirring story of how dead Londinium was reborn, against the odds, as a bulwark against the Danes and a pivotal English citadel. It recounts how Anglo-Saxon London survived to become the most important town in England – and a vital stronghold in later campaigns against the Normans in 1066. Revealing the remarkable extent to which London was at the centre of things, from the very beginning, this volume at last gives the vibrant early medieval city its due.
Book Synopsis Roman Roadside Settlement and Rural Landscape at Brentford by : Robert Cowie
Download or read book Roman Roadside Settlement and Rural Landscape at Brentford written by Robert Cowie and published by Mola (Museum of London Archaeology). This book was released on 2013 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Flower of All Cities by : Robert Wynn Jones
Download or read book The Flower of All Cities written by Robert Wynn Jones and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique account of old London with all its energy, filth and splendour before the city's destruction by the Great Fire in 1666.
Book Synopsis Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker by : Hazel Forsyth
Download or read book Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker written by Hazel Forsyth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hazel Forsyth delvesin to never-before-studied primary sources to shed light on thedramatic aftermath of the disaster and reveal the very personalstories of the people who pieced their lives together in its wake. Bydocumenting the tradesmen, from apothecaries and chandlers toshoemakers and watchmakers, Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Makertells a story of loss and resilience and illuminates how the citywe know today rose from the ashes. Beautifully illustrated withexquisite fabrics, candle snuffers and other fascinating imagesassociated with the trades of the time, we are treated to a visualfeast, an evocative reminder of life before and after the Great Fire.
Book Synopsis London’s Waterfront and its World, 1666–1800 by : John Schofield
Download or read book London’s Waterfront and its World, 1666–1800 written by John Schofield and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, covering the period 1666–1800, considers the archaeology of the port of London on a wide scale, from the City down the Thames to Deptford. During this period, with the waterfront at its centre, London became the hub of the new British empire, contributing to the exploitation of people from other lands known as slavery.
Book Synopsis Roman Waterfront Development at 12 Arthur Street, City of London by : Dan Swift
Download or read book Roman Waterfront Development at 12 Arthur Street, City of London written by Dan Swift and published by Mola (Museum of London Archaeology). This book was released on 2008 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study brings to light new evidence for the Claudian waterfront and construction of the terracing along the natural slope of the riverbank. Post-Boudican and Hadrianic developments included the construction of two, more solid, timber quays built in c A.D. 70-80/3 and subsequently in c A.D. 120 as tidal regression generally hastened the decline of the port. The remains of major buildings include a possible early bathhouse as well as 1st- to mid 3rd-century A.D. high-status buildings with hypocausts, paved floors, mosaics and painted wall plaster. One of these may be part of a building previously recorded at the adjacent site of Suffolk House, where it was interpreted as a goldsmith's premises. Other buildings at Arthur Street are interpreted as high-status residential complexes or townhouses. Alongside the buildings was a large well containing the remarkably well-preserved elements of an elaborate rotary water-lifting device consisting of the wooden buckets and Iron linking chain.
Book Synopsis Roman Southwark, Settlement and Economy by : Carrie Cowan
Download or read book Roman Southwark, Settlement and Economy written by Carrie Cowan and published by Mola (Museum of London Archaeology). This book was released on 2009 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "selected tables."--CD-ROM label.
Book Synopsis At the Limits of Lundenwic by : Louise Fowler (Archaeologist)
Download or read book At the Limits of Lundenwic written by Louise Fowler (Archaeologist) and published by Mola (Museum of London Archaeology). This book was released on 2013 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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 settlement features and the latest radiocarbon-dated inhumation in Lundenwic (cal AD 720-950).
Download or read book London Topographical Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume.
Download or read book Towns in the Dark written by Gavin Speed and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is to draw together still scattered data to chart and interpret the changing nature of life in towns from the late Roman period through to the mid-Anglo-Saxon period. Did towns fail? Were these ruinous sites really neglected by early Anglo-Saxon settlers and leaders?
Book Synopsis Late 17th- to 19th-century Burial and Earlier Occupation at All Saints, Chelsea Old Church, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea by : Robert Cowie
Download or read book Late 17th- to 19th-century Burial and Earlier Occupation at All Saints, Chelsea Old Church, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea written by Robert Cowie and published by Mola (Museum of London Archaeology). This book was released on 2008 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Detailed study of Chelsea's past began in the early 18th century, but until the mid 1990s little archaeological information was available and local histories relied heavily on other sources. In recent years excavations near All Saints, Chelsea Old Church, in the historic core of the settlement, have begun to remedy this problem." "Excavations at 2-4 Old Church Street revealed evidence for prehistoric activity, a Roman rural settlement, and gardens and domestic occupation associated with a nearby medieval manor house. Most of the evidence for settlement, however, dated to the post-medieval period, which saw the transition of Chelsea from a village to a suburb." "A substantial part of the volume is concerned with the churchyard where the skeletons of 290 parishioners buried between c. 1700 and the mid 19th century were recovered. Identification of 21 individuals included two members of the Hand family who ran the famous Chelsea Bun House. Various aspects of the cemetery are addressed including its layout, graves, burial vaults, coffins, funerary clothing and personal items found." "Analysis of 198 skeletons has provided valuable demographic data for comparison with groups from London's urban cemeteries, and provides information about the health of the community for which there is no documentary evidence. Subjects discussed include biometric data, palaeopathology and the accuracy of osteological age and sex determination."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Crossing Paths Or Sharing Tracks? by : Audrey J. Horning
Download or read book Crossing Paths Or Sharing Tracks? written by Audrey J. Horning and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together over 30 leading scholars in post medieval archaeology and examines where this relatively new discipline has developed from and, perhaps more importantly, where it is going in the decades to come.
