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Autumn 2021

Volume 16, Number 6

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Features

Investigation: Roman statue mystery
Chris Constable considers the re-use of a surviving fragment of large Roman statuary as part of a 1 9th-century statue of King Alfred in Southwark
Archaeology News: The 'Hillingdon Hoard'
As part of the HS2 construction, archaeologists excavating in West Ruislip have found an important Iron Age potin coin hoard
Findspot: London's Roman Tools
Owen Humphreys discusses one aspect of his new book on tools from Roman London — one of the largest and most important collections in Europe
Society Centenary: CADHAS
Clive Orton, a long-term member of the Carshalton & District History and Archaeology Society, reviews the past and future of a local London society celebrating its centenary

Research
Roman Cremations at Old Ford
Lying close to the settlement at Old Ford, this site produced many pits and ditches, with some cremations and a possible bustum burial
Neil Hawkins, with contributions from Enikő Hudák, James Langthorne and Kate Turner

Londinium's Hadrianic 'War' Reviewed
A re-assessment of Dominic Perring's hypothesis of an early 2nd-century insurrection, and a review of the evidence
Bruce Watson

Brickmaking and Brewing in Brick Lane
An excavation in Block C of the former Truman's Brewery showed its development as tastes in beer changed and the production process became more complicated
Simon Pennington & Barbora Dmitričenko

Obituary: Jean Macdonald

Plus book review, commentary, news, and diary

The Fieldwork and Publication Round-up for 2020 (Volume 16, Supplement 2) is distributed with the Autumn 2021 issue. If you have not received one, please contact the Membership Secretary.

On the Cover
This rim sherd from a Neolithic vessel seems to have been decorated around the rim using what might have been the hoof of a neonate roe deer. It was one of a large number of sherds from at least 28 vessels of Early Neolithic Plain bowl type made in the mid-4th millennium BC. The sherds provide the first evidence of the Early Neolithic communities in the City area.

Analysis using a new radiocarbon procedure showed that this sherd came from a vessel used for cooking meat while others were used for dairy products.

The sherds were found in pits at Principal Place, Spitalfields, where MOLA has also excavated part of the northern Roman cemetery and where a late Roman gold and silver coin hoard was found (see cover image LA 15.11). Full accounts of both will be published in Transactions LAMAS (forthcoming).

Photo: © MOLA

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