Hewett, R., Miller, P. and Yendell, V. (2015). 19 Queen Elizabeth Street, London SE1 - Watching brief report. MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology). https://doi.org/10.5284/1052576. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 19 Queen Elizabeth Street, London SE1 - Watching brief report
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Series:		 Museum of London Archaeology unpublished report series
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https://doi.org/10.5284/1052576
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Publication Type:		 Report (in Series)
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Abstract:		 A watching brief and geoarchaeological works were carried out following an evaluation in 2013. Natural gravels were encountered at c -2.60m OD and were overlain by c 6m of archaeological formation. A silted up paleochannel formed the early part of the sequence and the area appeared to have been periodically flooded between drier phases occurring during the prehistoric period. The site was marginal land until it was probably incorporated within a system of water meadows with an associated drainage channel in the historic period. The first evidence for a building on the site is thought to date to the later 17th or early 18th century. Later post-medieval activity involved the raising of the ground level and culminated with the late 18th- and 19th-century development of buildings on the street frontage. Geoarchaeological monolith sampling recorded prehistoric sediments representing the formation of channel bars and islands used by prehistoric peoples for very short periods. Worked and burnt flint was recorded on the sand and silt banks/mid-channel bars that formed in the less constrained early Holocene tributary valley. This probably represented short-lived activity camps situated close to the river. During the Roman period the deposit sequence was represented by open grass-lands periodically waterlogged by river flooding. Such conditions would have made Roman occupation unlikely at the site in relation to its locations within a low lying channel valley that cut into or bisected the Horsleydown eyot. The upper alluvial sequences represent waterlogging and estuarine inundation of this low lying tributary floodplain up into the historic period.
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Author:		 R Hewett
P Miller
Virgil Yendell ORCID icon
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Publisher:		 MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Southwark Council (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2015
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Site: 19 Queen Elizabeth Street
County: Greater London
District: Southwark
Parish: BERMONDSEY ROTHERHITHE AND SOUTHWARK
Country: England
Grid Reference: 533657, 179926 (Easting, Northing)
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POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) BOTTLE (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) KILN FURNITURE (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) TOBACCO PIPE (Object England)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) WORKED FLINT (Find)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) WRITING SLATE (Object England)
EARLY PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods) PALEOCHANNEL (Monus)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) WALL (Monument Type England)
WATCHING BRIEF (Event)
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OASIS Id: molas1-222067
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Note:		 A4 client report
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Created Date:		 21 May 2019