Hill, J. and Woodger, A. (1999). Excavations at 72--75 Cheapside/83--93 Queen Street City of London. MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology).

Title:

Excavations at 72--75 Cheapside/83--93 Queen Street City of London

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Publication Type:

Monograph (in Series)

Abstract:

A site lying in the western half of the Roman city, straddling the major Roman road running from the south side of the forum to leave the city at what is now Newgate. A sequence of fifteen Roman buildings fronting onto the road, together with associated open areas, were recorded. In general these structures were constructed of timber, wattle and brickearth daub and dated to between the first- and mid-second century. Of special note are an early circular wattle structure and the pre-Boudiccan building dated by dendrochronology to AD59-60 that succeeded it. The evidence for the latest Roman structures, which were probably in use into the third century and may have include masonry elements, was fragmentary. The scope of this report is confined to a description of the structural sequence with comments on the more noteworthy small finds and the dating evidence derived from the ceramic and other assemblages. Full finds analysis will be presented in the report describing work at the adjacent site of 1 Poultry. This area was the commercial centre of Late Saxon and medieval London and the outlines of the street system in this area are assumed to have been established in about 886 AD when King Alfred restored the city (Queen Street dates from after the Great Fire of London in 1666). Tenth-century occupation is represented by a series of ground level and sunken timber buildings, associated cut features -- some of which were wattle-lined -- dumping and various other cut features and deposits. From the late-eleventh century stone buildings appear on the site with further pits. The west end of the nave of the parish church of St Pancras, Soper Lane may have been recorded along with a chalk-lined burial vault from its cemetery. A brick-lined pit and a pit recorded during trail work were the only features dated later than the fourteenth century. The volume includes discussion of Anglo-Saxon `treewrightry' and tool kits -- a term derived from the Old English word for woodworker and describing a suite of techniques of structural woodworking of the early medieval period. There are French and German summaries.

Author:

Julian Hill
Aidan Woodger

Publisher:

MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)

Year of Publication:

1999

ISBN:

1 901992 08 X

Locations:

Location - Auto Detected:	St Pancras Soper Lane
Location - Auto Detected:	Queen Street

Subjects / Periods:

Roman (Auto Detected Temporal)

1666 (Auto Detected Temporal)

Third Century (Auto Detected Temporal)

Medieval (Auto Detected Temporal)

Fourteenth Century (Auto Detected Temporal)

Late Saxon (Auto Detected Temporal)

Midsecond Century (Auto Detected Temporal)

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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))

Created Date:

04 Sep 2002