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the published sequence of land reclamation at Trig Lane is compared with the wider picture of riverside development established from excavations at other waterfront sites in London. Industrial evidence from along the London waterfront of a series of late-medieval to nineteenth-century dye houses reflects the important trade in cloths dyed in London. Archaeological and documentary evidence demonstrate the continuation of textile finishing in the Swan Lane area for upwards of half a millennium

discusses the importance of Bristol's old harbour in relation to its location on the river Avon and the peculiar difficulties presented by its topography. Methods of navigating the channel and the perils involved are described. Mercantile trade declined during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and attempts to revitalise the docks during this period are discussed from historical sources. Current efforts to preserve and record sites in the dock area are described

excavations have revealed a sequence of dock structures; the docks were constructed in the twelfth century and additions, repairs and land reclamation continued into the fourteenth century when a new dock was built further into the harbour. The docks were designed to handle coastal trade. Fishing was important part of the town's economy throughout its history. Sever economic decline after the fifteenth century was reversed in the Victorian period with the building of docks and the railway

three harbour sites are known from Perth, the earliest originating in the twelfth century and remaining in use until the nineteenth. Excavation has confirmed the position of the second, the New Haven, begun in the sixteenth century. The construction sequence for the main quay and harbour wall was examined. The robbed remains of two successive harbour walls were recovered and a comparison of eighteenth-century maps confirmed that the quay had been altered some time between 1715 and 1774

presents a summary account of a number of fish-weirs, bank revetments and a mill-dam of Neolithic, Saxon and medieval date recorded from a small stretch of the river Trent. The different structures are described and compared with examples elsewhere in Britain and Europe. The types and location of weirs are seen to be partly related to the nature of the river bed and flow of the river. Gravel quarrying at Hemington Fields has allowed a plan of ancient river channels to be made and revealed remains of several weirs

substantial middens were partly excavated at three sites where they could be seen to pre-date the town, and to have provided a foundation for the thirteenth-century wool house. An estimate is given of the amount of oyster meat represented and methods for dating the material are discussed. The size of the middens and lack of other food remains incorporated in them might suggest commercial harvesting

reviews evidence from the medieval London waterfront for the characteristics of vernacular carpentry of particular periods, as recorded in well-preserved timber structures. The date and manner of the introduction of fully framed buildings to London is examined as an example of the wide-reaching implications of such studies

excavation has revealed evidence for a number of successive quays and warehouses from the 1560s, following the building of the Exeter Canal, to the mid-eighteenth century. The paper examines the sequence of development of the Exeter waterfront

Presents a summary of information from sites excavated around the Brayford Pool. Environmental evidence shows that, in the later prehistoric and Romano-British periods, Lincoln lay near the head of an estuary. From the Roman to the later medieval period the flow of water through the Pool was alternately slow and almost stagnant, and faster, indicating periodic human interference with the channel upstream. Roman and Saxon waterfront structures consist of fences and fish-weirs but there was no well-defined port area until the thirteenth century. Excavations at Waterside North revealed a series of fences, a possible stone pier or slipway and a small jetty but no sequence of successive waterfronts