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Summer 2019

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Features
  • Museum Visit: Becky Wallower makes a pilgrimage along the Thames from Greenwich, via Bankside, to Fulham to discover how three major historic properties are being restored and redisplayed
  • An appreciation of former secretary Becky Wallower, who has stepped down from the London Archaeology committee after 15 years.

Research

Requiem: Remembering London's Archaeology
Post-war archaeology and excavations at St Swithin’s House show the problems encountered along the way
Ivor Noël Hume

Excavations at St Peter’s Church, Petersham
Exposed inhumation burials and a brick-lined vault of the Gage family, members of an affluent Thameside community
Suzanne Westall and Helen Chittock

St Mary Stratford Bow Workhouse, E3
Excavations at Bow Road reveal the development of a 19-century workhouse and what life was like therein
Les Capon and Lucy Whittingham

18th-century Innovations in Cattle Breeding
Finds from 1 Dickens Square, Southwark, allowed the study of cattle development, leading to the identification of possible types or breeds
Kevin Rielly

Plus commentary, news and events diary

On the Cover
A highly ornate, gilded copper-alloy handle from a lead coffin excavated at St Peter's Church, Petersham. The iconography of this handle and other coffin motifs indicated that it was the coffin of Caroline Douglas, the 6th Marchioness of Queensbury.
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