Recent Discoveries

This section contains links to, and brief details of, recent significant discoveries made in Greater London.

Museum of London Archaeology:  MoLAS Projects, News including:

MOLA News:
- 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, and 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 Disection cemetery
  150 Stratford High Street: Massive 18th-century watermill

The Olympics, The Olympics Sites: MoLAS/PCA
Bermondsey Abbey ©PCA 

Pre-Construct Archaeology: PCA Sites and News Highlights, including:

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 +
  *Now: The 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 On-line Archaeological reports

    >Projects in London, including:
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, Roman

> Time Team > Reports - Series 15, 2008: Shooters Hill, Greenwich WW2 installations, plus unexpected Iron Age iron smelting

T5, Heathrow Airport Excavations by Framework Archaeology

         Iron Age Heathrow ©FA
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 Massive Iron Age ditch, Woolwich ©OA 

Hampton Court Revelations

"Biggest ditch ever!"
Massive Iron Age ditch, plus 5 medieval and Tudor pottery kilns, at Woolwich.

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.

Rare Georgian gun carriage find from the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich

AOC: 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 & 182 New Cross Road, Lewisham

> Research Projects
Cancer in the 18th Century: A case from All Hallows by the Tower

>Discoveries> AOC Archaeology News
Origins of Anglo-Saxon London
Caius House, Battersea
Hall Place, Bexley

41-63 Prescot Street E1 On-line 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 2*).

 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 south east and east London