The Royal Navy victualling yard, East Smithfield, London

London’s Royal Navy victualling yard, the first large-scale naval food supply base in Britain, was founded in 1560 and closed in 1785, having proved inadequate for the needs of the expanding Georgian navy. A substantial part of the ground plan of the yard was recorded and combined with documentary evidence to identify slaughterhouses and yards, salt houses and pickling sheds, bakeries, coopers’ workshops, storehouses, and the offices and dwellings of yard personnel. The work reported on here represents the most extensive excavation and post-excavation analysis of an early post-medieval naval victualling establishment in this country and will be of especial interest to archaeologists and naval historians

The Old Welsh Bridge, Shrewsbury;Â excavations at the Severn Theatre venue, Frankwell, Shrewsbury, 2006

The Frankwell district of Shrewsbury grew up around the original bridgehead settlement on the banks of the River Severn. Geoarchaeological investigations have enhanced our understanding of the location of the 9th-century AD burh. The earliest evidence for occupation dates from the 10th century AD and the Welsh Bridge was constructed by the early 12th century. Successive phases of medieval bridge defences, part of a hospital cemetery and masonry buildings are traced through archaeological excavation and documentary research. Demolition of the Old Welsh Bridge in the early 19th century resulted in major land reclamation and the construction of housing and a Methodist Chapel, yielding a diverse assemblage of finds

Excavations at the priory and hospital of St Mary Spital, London

In 1197, a modest hospital was founded on the fringes of the City of London. It grew to become one of the most significant institutions for the care of London's sick poor in medieval times. Exactly 800 years later, following extensive archaeological excavations and research, the Museum of London Archaeology Service has produced this volume describing the hospital of St Mary Spital, Bishopsgate. A new approach has been taken to archaeological reporting: all the strands of evidence have been synthesised together to provide a single chronological account of the priory and hospital. This has been designed to produce a fuller account of the site in a more readable format, and to allow current research debates to be addressed in a series of thematic sections. These thematic essays provide insights into topics such as the hospital buildings, the way of life and diet of the inhabitants and the hospital's role in London. The environment of the site is also discussed as are 126 excavated human skeletons. The reuse of the site after the Dissolution of the monasteries is also described. The report is supported by 114 illustrations including photographs and drawings of finds varying from complete ceramic, glass and wooden vessels to items such as leather boots and gold rings

The Cistercian abbey of St Mary Graces, East Smithfield London

Founded in a time of war and pestilence by a renowned king, St Mary Graces, East Smithfield, was established in 1350 by Edward III on the site of a Black Death burial ground. This report presents the results of large-scale excavation in 1983–8 and post-excavation analysis of this, the last and relatively short-lived Cistercian house to be built in England before the Dissolution. The layout, architecture, history and people of the abbey are examined through the wealth of archaeological and documentary evidence uncovered. The work is of great importance to both medieval archaeology and Cistercian studies as well as being of interest to any student of the medieval period

Winchester Palace: Excavations at the Southwark Residence of the Bishops of Winchester

The London house of the medieval bishops of Winchester in Southwark originated in the mid 12th century. Situated adjacent to the Thames and wharves, it developed into a palatial residence based around an inner and outer courtyard and accommodating the bishop, his household and servants. The results of archaeological rescue excavations in 1983–90, mainly in the east part of the site, are supplemented by a wealth of documentary and pictorial evidence, taking the story into the 19th century. Fire in 1814 revealed the surviving medieval masonry of the hall and service range, and the hall’s west gable wall with its rose window is an imposing landmark today

The medieval priory and hospital of St Mary Spital and the Bishopsgate suburb: excavations at Spitalfields Market, London E1, 1991-2007

Spitalfields Market was the the site of the Augustinian priory and hospital of St Mary without Bishopsgate, later known as St Mary Spital. Large areas of the medieval precinct have been explored, making this by far the most intensively investigated medieval hospital – and one of the most extensively investigated monastic establishments – in Britain. Exceptional discoveries included a pre-existing extramural and extraparochial cemetery that became the priory’s principal cemetery; remarkable evidence from the canons’ infirmary with its attached pharmacy; the charnel crypt of the 14th-century cemetery chapel, which survived and is preserved today under Bishops Square; and the secular hamlet of timber houses and workshops that grew around the cemetery in the 14th and 15th centuries. The Spitalfields series includes: A bio-archaeological study of medieval burials on the site (MOLA Monograph 60, 2012); The Spitalfields suburb 1539–c 1880 (MOLA Monograph 61, 2015)

The evolution and exploitation of the Avon flood plain at Bath and the development of the southern suburb: Excavations at Southgate, Bath 2006-9

The SouthGate site lies between the River Avon and the southern defences of Roman and later Bath. This volume describes the evolution of the local Avon flood plain from the Pleistocene to the 20th century. Highlights include a large Early and Late Mesolithic lithic assemblage, Anglo-Saxon extramural activity, the Norman and later development of the Southgate suburb, and an artificial watercourse which eventually became an open sewer known as the Bum Ditch. Later periods provide glimpses of a low-status area that provided goods, food and services to the more familiar wealthy Georgian city, the ‘Baedeker’ air raids and the Beatles

Holywell Priory and the development of Shoreditch to c1600: Archaeology from the London Overground East London Line

The upgrade and extension of the East London Line created an opportunity for archaeologists to discover more about Shoreditch. Archaeological investigations followed the proposed route and this volume examines the landscapes concealed beneath modern-day Shoreditch. Roman burials were discovered here, close to Ermine Street. The area was transformed in the 1150s by the foundation of Augustinian Holywell Priory, west of what is now Shoreditch High Street. Holywell was the ninth richest nunnery in England at the Dissolution. Sir Thomas Lovell established a residence within its precinct and was buried in the priory church in 1524; other mansions were constructed to the east. Properties associated with the former religious precincts defined the early London suburbs