London Archaeologist 11 (10)

The article describes archaeological investigations at the site of Christchurch Court, formerly Sudbury House, on the corner of Newgate Street and Warwick Lane in the City of London. Although later levels were heavily truncated, evidence was found of early Roman activity (possibly fences and insubstantial structures), of the main east--west Roman road, and of several timber buildings to the south of the road. A large drainage channel with tributary streams was recorded, and is thought to have been open during the Roman period but backfilled during the post-Roman period. The evidence for natural or man-made streams in this area of London from the Roman period to the twentieth century is reviewed.

Article describing archival research into 220 Borough High Street, the site of which was excavated in 1979 and the ceramic assemblage from which included seven green transfer-printed plates and three similar bowls bearing the inscription ``Hinton's Eating House 96 Blackman St.Boro''. Documentary evidence indicates that the site was occupied between 1828 and 1843 by John Hinton, a cook, for whose eating house these personalised plates would have been produced. The author discusses the significance of personalised crockery in promoting an identity for the eating house; other information revealed about John Hinton's household; the pattern of deposition (the excavation assemblage consisted entirely of ceramics; the appearance and character of Blackman Street in the nineteenth century; and characteristics of eating houses in nineteenth-century London.