London Archaeologist 11 (9)

Article describing the history of attempts to locate the remains of a Roman villa in Wanstead Park, originally indicated by the discovery during landscaping works in the eighteenth century of a large mosaic pavement. An account is given of a GPR survey carried out in early 2007, which showed the presence of a man-made structure to the north of Perch Pond.

Article describing the history, route, structures and surviving features of an early-nineteenth-century horse-drawn tramway operating between Croydon and Merstham; tram plates believed to be from the tramway have been placed on display in `the caves', a group of former silver-sand mines in Reigate, the originally intended terminus of the tramway.

Article describing the sequence of settlement evidence uncovered by investigations at a site near the junction of Romford Road and Vicarage Lane, Stratford. Activity from the prehistoric to the post-medieval period was indicated, that from the medieval period being particularly well represented and including environmental material.

Personal recollections by Harvey Sheldon of excavations in 1969 of a section of Roman road between Lefevre Road, Old Ford, and an adjacent railway cutting, and of how the experience encouraged him to become a professional archaeologist and contributed to his concern at the destruction of archaeological sites.