This section contains links to, and brief details of, recent significant discoveries made in Greater London.
MoLAS Projects include:
- East London Line, East London Lives
- Arnold Circus
- The dish of a thousand flowers
- Love's Labour Found: Shakespeare's first playhouse confirmed
- Museum of London uncover rare medieval waterwheel
- Thames Discovery Programme
Greater London Sites Summaries (by year and borough)
- East London Gravels Project: Excavations in Newham, Barking and Dagenham 1963-99
- The Holywell witch bottle
- A Roman cellar at 20 Fenchurch Street
- Cobbled street unearthed at London 2012 site
- Much ado about something in Shoreditch: The Theatre
- Pavements at St Paul's Cathedral: The Chapter House
- Excavations at the Royal London Hospital: A dissection cemetery
- 150 Stratford High Street: Massive 18th century watermill
The Olympics
The Olympics Sites: MoLAS/PCA
Pre-Construct Archaeology
PCA Sites and News Highlights, include:
- Kings Cross Central -19th century railway goods yard
- Kensington Palace - excavations in the gardens
- Old Seagers Distillery, Deptford: mesolithic tree stump; 19th century gin distillery
- Drapers Gardens: rare Roman door; wooden buildings, trackway, pipes, and well; hoard of brass pots and pans; gemstone
- Romano-British pottery - some 45,000 sherds, weighing 1.57 tonnes have been catalogued
Archaeology South East
Archaeology South East - the oldest structure in London - a Neolithic wood platform found at Belmarsh Prison
Wessex Archaeology
Wessex Archaeology Projects and online archaeological reports
Projects in London include:
- Beddington
- Archaeology at Harlington: Mesolithic-medieval landscape
- Battersea Manor House: Saxon and later
- Charter Quay Kingston-upon-Thames: Saxon and medieval town
- Kew Bridge House, Brentford: 18th century malthouse
- `Vitro', 60-63 Fenchurch Street, City of London EC3: Roman / Saxon and later
- Enfield – Innova Park, Enfield Lock: Bronze Age, Iron Age, RomanT
- Time Team Reports - Series 15, 2008: Shooters Hill, Greenwich Second World War installations, plus unexpected Iron Age iron smelting
Excavations at Heathrow
T5, Heathrow Airport Excavations by Framework Archaeology
The excavations at T5 were the biggest ever dig in the UK. This website is a milestone in the delivery of archaeology to the general public:
- Find out about life on site, and what went into co-ordinating this complex investigation into our past.
- Go back in time and read the story of T5’s ancient past. See images of how archaeologists imagine the landscape, and how people used to live.
- See how the landscape around T5 has changed through time on the interactive map.
- Explore the archaeological evidence behind the story of T5, and see if you come to the same conclusions.
Oxford Archaeology
Oxford Archaeology: latest news
RAF Hornchurch
RAF Hornchurch Project: in the front line in two world wars, this project aims to collect memories of the airfield as it was, to help understand its historical importance,and inform future management of what remains today.
Royal Arsenal, Woolwich
Rare Georgian gun carriage find from the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich
AOC Archaeology Projects
AOC Archaeology Projects
Field Projects
- Early Saxon settlement and burials: early Saxon Lundenwic and cemetery
- Post medieval cemetery: St James's Cemetery, Bowling Green Lane, Clerkenwell
- Post medieval shipyard: New Providence Wharf, East India Company Dock
Laser Scanning Projects
Medieval Church: Ruxley Old Church
Buildings Projects
Electric Empire Cinema: 178 and 182 New Cross Road, Lewisham
Research Projects
Cancer in the 18th century: a case from All Hallows by the Tower
Discoveries
- Origins of Anglo-Saxon London
- Caius House, Battersea
- Hall Place, Bexley
East London digs
41-63 Prescot Street E1: online excavation, now at post-excavation stage, by LP-Archaeology. Follow the excavation's progress through blogs and photographs; access the site records; read the history of the area. Roman burials, medieval pits, 17th century and later buildings. Keep up with the post-excavation work, and see the wonderful millefiori dish that accompanied a Roman burial under `And now for something completely different....'
Wanstead Parklands Project Wanstead Park Revealed: Discover a landscape of history combined with nature and wildlife!
The Park's history is extraordinary. A site occupied since pre-Roman times; a royal court of James I and Charles I; briefly a centre of England's government; site of the world's largest telescope of its time, leading to great scientific discoveries like the aberration of light and oscillation of the earth; one of the finest examples of English Landscape Movement of the 18th century (now listed Grade II*).
People's War Project
Digging Dad's Army The East and South-East London People’s War Project, is a new multi-disciplinary, community based research project centered on a study area in the southeast and east London.
