
London Under Ground
The Archaeology of a City
Oxbow Books (Publisher)
Published on 31. May 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
324 pages
978-1-78570-776-6 (ISBN)
Description
London's archaeology is as complex and varied as the city is today. These seventeen papers survey twenty-five years of London archaeology in the city and its environs, exploring the history of the city from prehistory to 1800 and touching on art, landscape, mortuary archaeology, roads, buildings and artefacts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 170 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78570-776-6 (9781785707766)
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07/2017
Oxbow Books
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Haynes Ian Haynes | Sheldon H. Sheldon | Hannigan Lesley Hannigan
London Under Ground
the archaeology of a city
E-Book
07/2017
OXBOW BOOKS
€26.49
Available for download
Content
Introduction ( H Sheldon and I Haynes ); Towards the development of a settled landscape in London c.4000-1200 BC ( J Cotton ); Changing approaches to the first millennium ( N Merriman ); The Roman city ( M Hassall ); Art in Roman London ( M Henig ); Religion ( I Haynes ); Evidence from Roman London's cemeteries ( B Barber and J Hall ); Roman Southwark ( H Sheldon ); Roads, roadside settlements and their countryside ( D G Bird ); Early and middle Saxon archaeology ( R Cowie ); Late Saxon and Norman London ( J Clark ); Buildings and defences 1200-1600 ( J Schofield ); Medieval pottery ( A Vince ); Tudor and Stuart playhouses ( S Blatherwick ); Mortuary archaeology to 1800 ( V Harding ); Environmental archaeology ( J Sidell ); Archaeology of London, 1973-1997 ( R Cowie and R Densem ).