Books published by Museum of London Archaeology

This report presents an overview of Roman urban development in London south of the Thames. The establishment of the Roman bridge and the first approach roads and landing places, made Southwark an ideal location for the development of facilities for the trans-shipment of goods between land and river.

Beneath modern offices and shops at Spitalfields MOLA archaeologists discovered a burial place for the town's Roman dead. In the 4th century AD the area attracted some exceptionally rich burials, including the stone sarcophagus and lead coffin of the 'Spitalfields Lady', excavated in a storm of media interest in 1999.

The excavation at 201 Bishopsgate in 1998-9 uncovered evidence for Londinium's northern cemetery, roadside occupation along Roman Ermine Street, and medieval and later development to the west of Bishopsgate. This area has been extensively used and re-used, from burials to refuse-disposal to houses, as London has expanded.