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C257 Archaeology Central Post-Excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design Archaeological Targeted Watching Brief Charterhouse Square Grout Shaft |
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Museum of London Archaeology unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
A 4.5m diameter shaft was monitored to 4m below ground level and exposed river terrace gravels overlaid by a thick deposit of naturally deposited brickearth. A 200mm thick band layer of compacted gravel overlay this, into which eleven NE-SW aligned burials had been cut. The majority of the adult supine inhumations (with a single subadult apparently buried in a coffin) were within distinct grave cuts; at least one was possibly buried in/ or on a timber coffin/ or board. Ceramics recovered from the backfill of the graves suggest burials dates of between 1270 And 1350. This first phase of burials were sealed by a dumped deposit 300mm thick. into which a further two adult individuals, also aligned NE-SW, were cut. Both had been disturbed and truncated by a third phase of burials, which consisted of 12 E-W aligned burials, all apparently adult supine. Two were buried together in a double grave, two were stacked one above the other. In total 25 articulated skeletons were recovered, none displaying obvious trauma, and all provisionally interpreted as 14th-c plague victims, although the change in grave orientation in the final phase may relate to the post-plague Outer Cemetery of Charterhouse, dating to the 1370s. A thick mixed deposit dating to between 1600 and 1800 sealed the graves. It may be that later burials have been entirely truncated by this post-medieval activity, or that there were simply no later burials in this location. Later post-medievalNineteenth century deposits including a brick footing and garden soil horizons associated with domestic dwellings to the west, subsequently demolished to make way for the Metropolitan line in the 1860s. |
Author: |
Sam Pfizenmaier
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MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Greater London HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2013
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Crossrail Charterhouse Square Grout Shaft |
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Islington |
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ISLINGTON |
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Greater London |
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England |
Grid Reference: 531969, 181882 (Easting, Northing)
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A4 client report
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Created Date: |
02 May 2018 |