| Title: |
Aspects of Saxo-Norman London III: the bridgehead and Billingsgate to 1200 |
| Series: |
LAMAS Special Papers
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| Volume: |
14
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| Number of Pages: |
216 |
| Biblio Note |
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| Publication Type: |
Monograph (in Series)
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| Abstract: |
The volume describes features dating to the period c400 to c1200 from four waterfront excavations of 1974--82 in the City of London; two (New Fresh Wharf and Billingsgate Lorry Park) immediately below the late Saxon and medieval bridge, and two (Swan Lane and Seal House) just above it. During the period 400--900 the evidence on these four sites confirms recent suggestions that the Roman city was largely deserted. There is archaeological evidence for a shift in the location of settlement from the Strand to within the Roman walls, some time in the late ninth or early tenth century. Documentary evidence demonstrates that at least one block of land near the waterfront, south of St Paul's, was laid out in the last decade of the ninth century; possibly linked with trade through a beach market at Queenhithe. Evidence suggests that during the tenth and early eleventh centuries London traded inland rather than abroad. The earliest post-Roman structural activities discovered between Billingsgate and London Bridge were the jetty and associated rubble bank at New Fresh Wharf, dated late tenth or early eleventh century. On three of the four sites there followed embankments of clay and timber during the first half of the eleventh century; at New Fresh Wharf the embankments were constructed in parts which became individual properties by 1200, suggesting that there may have been individual ownership from the beginning. The embankments would have been suitable for the berthing of the smaller kind of shipping then prevalent, and probably formed part of London's expanding harbour facilities in the eleventh century. The relationship of the various embankments to the rising river level is also considered. The development of the waterfront area south of Thames Street, between the bridge and Billingsgate, can be seen within the context of the late tenth and early eleventh century development of the immediate neighbourhood and of the city as a whole. The waterfront ends of north-south streets served as localised minor markets, situated at the only places on the foreshore to which there was public access and, initially co-existing with the major harbours at Queenhithe, Billingsgate and Botolph Wharf. The building of the bridge by around AD~1000 demonstrates renewed major trading activity. Development of the two sites above the bridge after 1050 was comparatively unspectacular, but below the bridge two further phases can be seen: by about 1100, the final demolition of the Roman riverside wall and the construction of the churches of St Magnus and St Botolph south of the new thoroughfare, Thames Street; secondly, the erection of stone buildings on the reclaimed land during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, concomitant with the crystallisation of St Botolph's Wharf as an entry-point of civic and greater significance a place where royal customs were received in 1200-1. Appendix 1: `Finds catalogue' by A Vince (139-42) has contributions by L Brown and is contained in a microfiche with the book. Appendix 2: `Tree-ring analysis' by J Hillam (143-73). |
| Author: |
K Steedman
Tony Dyson
John Schofield
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| Year of Publication: |
1992
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| ISBN: |
0903290405 |
| Locations: |
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Thames Street |
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St Botolph |
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London Bridge |
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Seal House |
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Swan Lane |
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New Fresh Wharf |
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Hillam 14373 |
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St Pauls |
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| Subjects / Periods: |
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MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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| 1200 (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Late Tenth (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Early Eleventh Centuries (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Thirteenth Centuries (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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ROMAN
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EARLY MEDIEVAL
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| Early Eleventh Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Eleventh Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Early Tenth Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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| Source: |
BIAB
(The British Archaeological Bibliography (BAB))
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| Created Date: |
21 Jan 2002 |
