Recent Publications

British Archaeology magazine CBA [Council For British Archaeology]
No. 108 September/October 2009

Cover story:  `200 years ago it would have been thieves,scavengers and beggars. Today it's archaeologists' Collecting London's Forgotten Stories - London: the mud of ages - The Thames Discovery Programme;
RHX: a brick precisely dated for £100? - Sebastian Payne, chief scientist at English Heritage, on new dating technique, using  analysis of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich as an example.
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Current Archaeology Magazine No. 236 Nov. 2009
`Leprosy and the Black Death' Excavating evidence of Medieval pandemic infections - including the excavations of the Black Death cemetery at East Smithfield
`Water Power in Medieval Greenwich' Industrial-scale production discovered in 12th century Greenwich - the substantial remains of a tide mill, including parts of a waterwheel that would have been 5m across
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The London Archaeologist  Autumn 2009 London Archaeologist ©LA                   

featuring:

Access to archaeology: London and the Festival of British Archaeology
Society Report: The Dissolution of SCOLA
Access to Archaeology: Frogs on the foreshore - Natalie Cohen describes the Thames Discovery Programme

Saxo-Norman Southwark - A review of the archaeological and historical evidence
Excavations at Drapers Gardens - New evidence of Roman settlement along the Walbrook
Burford Warf Calico Printing Works - Post-medieval wharfs on the Channelsea River, Stratford

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An extensive range of publications on London's archaeology, both popular and scholarly, can be found at Museum of London Archaeology Service Publications, including forthcoming titles.

Newly out:
- Roman Southwark settlement and economy: excavations in Southwark 1973–91
- Great houses, moats and mills on the south bank of the Thames: medieval and Tudor Southwark and Rotherhithe
- Early and Middle Saxon rural settlement in the London Region
- St Marylebone Church and burial ground in the 18th to 19th centuries
- The Black Death cemetery, East Smithfield, London
- Burial at the site of the parish church of St Benet Sherehog before and after the Great Fire: excavations at 1 Poultry, City of London
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Somerset House The Palace of England's Queens 1551 - 1692 by Simon Thurley  London Topographical Society  Publ. No. 168 2009. The first study since 1912 of England's first Renaissance palace, including specially prepared ground plans and reconstructions, and every known original depiction of this `wonderhouse', with recently discovered architectural decorative details.
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Roman London
Londinium and beyond: essays on Roman London and its hinterland for Harvey Sheldon  eds J. Clark et al 2008  CBA Online Bookshop 
This exciting volume pays tribute to the work of the archaeologist Harvey Sheldon, who has been involved in the archaeology of London for over four decades.
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Blue Plaques Lived in London: Blue Plaques and the Stories Behind Them ed. Emily Cole, Yale UP 2009

English Heritage Research Department
Summaries of all English Heritage Research Reports can be found through the Research Department Report Series Database search engine, the following link to the full report:

63/2008 - Manor Farm, Ruislip, London Borough of Hillingdon: A Historic Building Report   Geraint Franklin and Linda Hall
Manor Farm, Ruislip, was built in 1505-06 as a manorial home farm of King’s College, Cambridge. It is of significance as an early and little-altered example of a fully-floored hall house with an integral stack. It is also a rare example of a documented, early 16th century court hall.

14/2009 - Repository Woods, Woolwich, London: An Archaeological Survey of the Royal Military Repository Training Grounds 
W. D. Cocroft , S. Newsome , J. Millward  
This survey was undertaken as part of the research for the Survey of London’s forthcoming volume on Woolwich parish. The research has revealed the unique role that the Royal Military Repository played in training soldiers in the mounting and movement of heavy artillery at the start of the 19th century and has shown that the surviving landscape of tracks and ponds, later to provide a picturesque setting for the Rotunda, was a military creation with both practical and recreational uses.

Research News

Chiswick House, London: excavation on the site of the Jacobean House Dave Fellows English Heritage
Research News No. 11 Spring 2009
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Oxford Archaeology: Oxford Archaeology: Latest News
- latest monograph: `In the vaults beneath' - Archaeological recording at St George's, Bloomsbury by Ceridwen Boston et al OA Monograph no. 8, 2009 available as free download, or printed copy.
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Pre-Construct Archaeology's PCA Publications
 - latest monograph: A New Millennium at Southwark Cathedral: Investigations into the First Two Thousand Years
By David Divers, Chris Mayo, Nathalie Cohen and Chris Jarrett
PCA Monograph No. 8, 2009
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 All Archaeology South East Projects Reports can be accessed via a clickable map.
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SOME INTERESTING ARTICLES:

 ‘Lightening the Load: Five 19th Century River Lighters at Erith on the River Thames, UK’,  G. Dawkes, D. Goodburn,  P. Walton Rogers Int. J. Nautical Archaeol. 38.1, 2009, 71-89.

 ‘Current Findings and Research Potential of a Post-Medieval Osteological Collection from London’,  R. Ives, & M. Melikian Palaeopathology Newsletter 145, 2009, 15-21.

An Early Neolithic Grave and Occupation, and an Early Bronze Age Hearth on the Thames Foreshore at Yabsley Street, Blackwall, London  by Sarah Coles, Steve Ford and Andy Taylor  Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society  
Vol. 74, 2008 p215-234
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The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology

Volume 42, part 1 of Post-Medieval Archaeology. Papers  include:
Historical and zooarchaeological evidence of horn-working in post-medieval London
By Lisa Yeomans
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Also see our Getting Involved pages for reading suggestions, and links to county, and other, societies with newsletters and journals.