London Under Ground: The Archaeology of a City

by Haynes, Ian; Sheldon, Harvey; Hannigan, Lesley

• ISBN13: 9781842170304
• ISBN10: 1842170309
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Summary

London's archaeology is as complex and varied as the city is today. These seventeen papers survey twenty-five years of London archaeology in the city and its environs from prehistory to 1800. Contents: Introduction (H Sheldon and I Haynes); Towards the development of a settled landscape in London c.4000-1200 BC (J Cotton); Changing approaches to the first milolennium (N Merriman); The Roman city (M Hassall); Art in Roman London (M Henig); Religion (I Haynes); Evidence from Roman London's cemeteries (B Barber and J Hall); Roman Southwark (H Sheldon); Roads, roadside settlements and their countryside (D G Bird); Early and middle Saxon archaeology (R Cowie); Late Saxon and Norman London (J Clark); Buildings and defences 1200-1600 (J Schofield); Medieval pottery (A Vince); Tudor and Stuart playhouses (S Blatherwick); Morturay archaeology to 1800 (V Harding); Environmental archaeology (J Sidell); Archaeology of London, 1973-1997 (R Cowie and R Densem).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	v
List of contributors	vi
Foreword	vii
Introduction: Twenty-Five Years of London Archaeology	1	(8)
Harvey Sheldon
Ian Haynes
Foragers and farmers: towards the development of a settled landscape in London, c. 4000--1200 BC	9	(26)
Jonathan Cotton
Changing approaches to the First Millennium BC	35	(17)
Nick Merriman
London: the Roman City	52	(10)
Mark Hassall
Art in Roman London	62	(23)
Martin Henig
Religion in Roman London	85	(17)
Ian Haynes
Digging up the people of Roman London: interpreting evidence from Roman London's cemeteries	102	(19)
Bruno Barber
Jenny Hall
Roman Southwark	121	(30)
Harvey Sheldon
The Environs of Londinium: roads, roadside settlements and the countryside	151	(24)
D. G. Bird
Londinium to Lundenwic: Early and Middle Saxon archaeology in the London region	175	(31)
Robert Cowie
Late Saxon and Norman London: thirty years on	206	(17)
John Clark
London: buildings and defences 1200--1600	223	(16)
John Schofield
The study of medieval pottery in London	239	(13)
Alan Vince
The archaeology of entertainment: London's Tudor and Stuart playhouses	252	(20)
Simon Blatherwick
Death in the City: mortuary archaeology to 1800	272	(12)
Vanessa Harding
Twenty-five years of environmental archaeology in London	284	(11)
Jane Sidell
Appendix: The archaeology of London, 1972--1997	295	(22)
Robert Cowie
Robin Densem
Index	317
Lysbeth Merrifield