The Development of Early Medieval and Later Poultry and Cheapside: Excavations at 1 Poultry and Vicinity, City of London (MoLA Monograph)

Burch, Mark, Treveil, Phil, Keene, Derek

ISBN 10: 1901992950 / ISBN 13: 9781901992953

Editore: MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2010

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• Titolo: The Development of Early Medieval and Later Poultry and Cheapside: Excavations at 1 Poultry and Vicinity, City of London (MoLA Monograph)
• Editore: MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1901992950
• ISBN 13: 9781901992953
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta
• Tipo di libro: book

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Riassunto

One of the largest excavations in the City of London at 1 Poultry recovered a remarkable archaeological sequence from the 1st to the 20th century AD. This volume presents the evidence for Late Saxon, medieval and post-medieval development of this part of the City. Poultry occupied a prominent position at the eastern end of Cheapside, the city's principal medieval market street; integrating documentary evidence with the archaeological record has provided an outstandingly detailed account of this area.

Reoccupation of the site in the later 10th century AD began with the construction of scattered sunken-floored buildings; a more regular pattern of settlement, characterised by narrow-fronted timber buildings along the roadsides, had developed by the early 11th century. Occupation became progressively denser up to the 13th century, when large stone-built houses began to be constructed in previously open areas behind the street frontages. Metalworking evidence from the excavated buildings indicates early economic activity, corresponding with later documentary evidence for smiths, ironmongers and other metalworkers in the area.

The Great Conduit, the City's first piped water supply, was established in the 13th century; its vaulted lower chamber survived at the junction of Bucklersbury and Cheapside. The remains of the late 11th-century church of St Benet Sherehog, destroyed in the Great Fire, were preserved beneath a later burial ground

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Book by Burch Mark Treveil Phil Keene Derek