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Spring 2026

Volume 17, Number 12

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Features

Site visit: Lesnes Abbey as a visitor experience Bruce Watson encourages visitors to Lesnes Abbey in Bexley. Although the other four monastic institutions have survived to a greater extent after the Dissolution, 20th-century excavations have exposed the ground plan and added to the story of the abbey.
Website review: A London Inheritance Jenny Hall reviews this interesting website which looks back to photographs recording how areas of London looked post-WWII and now, and which also considers the earlier history of the sites and their archaeology.

Research
Londinium: Harbour, Oppidum and Roman City
A linguistic analysis of London's name and a review of Roman Southwark's material culture and Celtic identity.
Theodora Bynon

The House of Robert Wilcox, Walthamstow
The changing character of Walthamstow is reflected in a microcosm through the site's archaeology, from rural retreat in the 1 6th century to a Victorian working-class suburb.
Les Capon, Ellen Green & Rebecca Haslam

Hampton Court's Moat Bridge
A review of the history of the construction, dismantling, re-instatement and archaeological excavation of the moat bridge at the entrance of Hampton Court.
Alexandra Stevenson

Obituaries
Portia Sarah Anne Askew (1957—2026) by Sophie Jackson and colleagues
Mark Wycliffe Samuel (1957—2025) by John Schofield and Roy Stephenson

Plus Reviews, News, Mosaic, Diary, From our archives and Commentary not by Gromaticus (a hard act to follow!)

On the Cover
This side view of a complete decorated samian bowl (Dragendorff form 37) depicts a hunting scene of a horseman and hunting dog. It was recovered from the basal fill of a large Roman timber-lined well, adjacent to the Grade 1 listed medieval tower of All Hallows Staining church, at 50 Fenchurch Street.

This is a good example of the type of vessel imported into Londinium from Gaul during the 1st to mid-3rd centuries AD and is part of a very large Roman pottery assemblage currently being assessed by MOLA ceramic specialists.

Photo © MOLA/Andy Chopping

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