The Archaeological Heritage of the City of London A progress report from the Department of Urban Archaeology, Museum of London

1976 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Brian Hobley
Keyword(s):  
Progress Report ◽  
Urban Archaeology ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

Excavations in the City of London: First Interim Report, 1974–1975

1977 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Hobley ◽  
John Schofield ◽  
Tony Dyson ◽  
Peter R. V. Marsden ◽  
Charles Hill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Archaeology ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
Set Up ◽  
City Of London ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City ◽  
Important Evidence

SummaryThe Department of Urban Archaeology, City of London, was set up in December 1973 as part of Guildhall Museum, now the Museum of London. Since then it has excavated sixteen sites and carried out numerous watching briefs. Most of the formal excavations have been conducted on the vital waterfront sites, made available for the first time, and on the Roman and medieval defences of the City. Important evidence of the elusive Saxon occupation is gradually coming to light, and the work is accompanied by specialist research, particularly finds, environmental and documentary.

Recovering Roman London

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Dominic Perring
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Urban Archaeology ◽  
Short History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

This chapter presents a short history of relevant archaeological research in London. It traces a long story of discovery that was born of seventeenth-century antiquarianism, stimulated by opportunities for discovery in rescue archaeology during Victorian rebuilding in the City of London, and came to maturity in England’s post-war development-led urban archaeology. This historiographic review explains how archaeological research has been organized in London, and how opportunities for study are a product of programmes of urban regeneration. The complex dialogue between archaeologists and developers has made a major contribution to the study and management of historic urban landscapes. It is explained that many hundreds of archaeological excavations have taken place in London over the last 400 years, but that many of the more important results remain relatively inaccessible.

A Fragment of Medieval Painting Discovered Next to St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield

2002 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 339-343
Author(s):  
Jane Spooner
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Paint Layer ◽  
Urban Archaeology ◽  
Lime Mortar ◽  
Colour Plate ◽  
Secondary Usage ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

In 1985, excavations by the Department of Urban Archaeology in Kinghorn Street, adjacent to St Bartholomew the Great, resulted in the discovery of one of the most important pieces of medieval painting to have been found in the City of London (colour plate 1).Discovered in two halves, the painted stone had been reused in a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century well construction immediately to the east of the church. The curved right edge of the stone probably derives from this secondary usage. When found, the two pieces were covered in lime mortar, to which, unfortunately, some of the paint layer transferred. The fragment is now in the Museum of London, where the two halves have been rejoined and other conservation work has been undertaken.

Francis Woodleke’s Window

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon McSheffrey
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Drainage Channels ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

A royal enquiry was commissioned in the mid-1530s to investigate the boundaries of the sanctuary of St Martin le Grand. This enquiry was precipitated not by a problem with felonious sanctuary seekers, but instead by a conflict between the City of London and Dutch-born shoemakers making and selling their wares in St Martin’s precinct despite prohibitions against immigrant labour. The testimony in the enquiry uncovers the complexity of jurisdictional rights woven into the idea of sanctuary: battles over labour, trade, and immigration were conflated with asylum for accused felons in both attacks and defences of sanctuary privilege. The witnesses’ statements also reveal how the boundaries of the sanctuary—often marked only by convention or by drainage channels in the street—functioned in the urban environment.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aled Davies
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Financial Centre ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post War ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This book is a study of the political economy of Britain’s chief financial centre, the City of London, in the two decades prior to the election of Margaret Thatcher’s first Conservative government in 1979. The primary purpose of the book is to evaluate the relationship between the financial sector based in the City, and the economic strategy of social democracy in post-war Britain. In particular, it focuses on how the financial system related to the social democratic pursuit of national industrial development and modernization, and on how the norms of social democratic economic policy were challenged by a variety of fundamental changes to the City that took place during the period....

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