Spitalfields Animal Bones
James Morris, Kevin Rielly, Chris Thomas, 2011.
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Introduction
The Spitalfields Market excavations in London were one of the biggest and most exciting archaeological projects in Britain, uncovering a Roman cemetery, a medieval priory and its churchyard (including the remains of nearly 11,000 people buried there), and the remains of hundreds of houses dating to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The excavations, running from 1991 to 2002 also recovered the largest group of artefacts ever found in London. The excavations consisted of a number of different sites combined into one large project; 280 Bishopsgate and the Spitalfields Ramp (Site code: SRP98), 250 Bishopsgate (Site Code: STE95), The Spitalfields Residential development (Site code: SQU94) and 288 Bishopsgate (Site code: BGE98). The sites were excavated by Museum of London Archaeological Service (MoLAS, now Museum of London Archaeology) in advance of redevelopment by the Spitalfields Development Group, Corporation of London, London International Finance Futures and Options Exchange, ABN Amro Bank, St George PLC and Mercury Asset Management Ltd. This project makes available the recorded faunal data from these excavations. The data ranges from the Roman period to the 19th century. It includes the detailed records of 9,341 individual fragments of animal bone. The recording and analysis of the faunal remains was conducted by Kevin Rielly. The project was lead by Chris Thomas.
The Spitalfields Animal Bone data also resides in the tDAR repository, and can be cross-searched with other animal bone datasets via the Transatlantic Archaeology Gateway (TAG).
