Tokenhouse Yard in the City of London lies in the upper reaches of the valley of the Walbrook. The Walbrook was undoubtedly a powerful and important topographical feature of the Roman city, rising to the north and coursing through the centre of the settlement cleaving it into two low hills, Cornhill and Ludgate Hill, before discharging into the Thames to the south. This area witnessed the build up of almost 4m of stratified deposits in the years between c. AD 43 and 400. The results of excavation presented in this volume tell the story of the struggle to live alongside the river, attempts to control its course and alleviate flooding. Waterlogged conditions resulted in outstanding preservation of organic remains and artefacts. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1: Circumstances of the fieldwork 1.2: Organisation of the report 1.3: Geological, topographical and archaeological background Chapter 2: The Archaeological Sequence 2.1: Channels of the Walbrook 2.2: Early Roman activity: Drainage and consolidation c. AD 50–70 2.3: Early Roman occupation: Alley, fences and box drains AD 70–90 2.4: Reclamation of the area: Drainage and rebuilding AD 90–130 2.5: Rustic structure and further flooding AD 130–180 2.6: Further Flooding and occupation AD 180–250 2.7: Late Roman activity AD 250–400 2.8: Medieval activity Chapter 3: Specialist Reports 3.1: The Roman pottery 3.2: The building materials 3.3: The Roman coins 3.4: The Roman small finds 3.5: The medieval small finds 3.6: The leather 3.7: The wood assemblage 3.8: The dendrochronological dating 3.9: The animal bone 3.10: The environmental evidence Chapter 4: Discussion and conclusions Appendix 1: Gazeteer of sites discussed in the text in the vicinity of Tokenhouse Yard Appendix 2: Pottery fabric expansion codes and quantification tables Appendix 3: Pollen diagrams French and German Summaries

Roman Archaeology in the Upper Reaches of the Walbrook Valley: Excavations at 6-8 Tokenhouse Yard, London EC2 (Pre-Construct Archaeology Monograph)

History

Leary, Jim

Butler, Jonathan

Ancient Civilizations

Pre-Construct Archaeology

Past Mobilities: Archaeological Approaches to Movement and Mobility

The new mobilities paradigm has yet to have the same impact on archaeology as it has in other disciplines in the social sciences - on geography, sociology and anthropology in particular - yet mobility is fundamental to archaeology: all people move. Moving away from archaeology’s traditional focus upon place or location, this volume treats mobility as a central theme in archaeology. The chapters are wide-ranging and methodological as well as theoretical, focusing on the flows of people, ideas, objects and information in the past; they also focus on archaeology’s distinctiveness. Drawing on a wealth of archaeological evidence for movement, from paths, monuments, rock art and boats, to skeletal and DNA evidence, Past Mobilities presents research from a range of examples from around the world to explore the relationship between archaeology and movement, thus adding an archaeological voice to the broader mobilities discussion. As such, it will be of interest not only to archaeologists and historians, but also to sociologists, geographers and anthropologists.

Reference

Routledge

The Remembered Land: Surviving Sea-level Rise after the Last Ice Age (Debates in Archaeology)

How did small-scale societies in the past experience and respond to sea-level rise? What happened when their dwellings, hunting grounds and ancestral lands were lost under an advancing tide? This book asks these questions in relation to the hunter-gatherer inhabitants of a lost prehistoric land; a land that became entirely inundated and now lies beneath the North Sea. It seeks to understand how these people viewed and responded to their changing environment, suggesting that people were not struggling against nature, but simply getting on with life – with all its trials and hardships, satisfactions and pleasures, and with a multitude of choices available. At the same time, this loss of land – the loss of places and familiar locales where myths were created and identities formed – would have profoundly affected people's sense of being. This book moves beyond the static approach normally applied to environmental change in the past to capture its nuances. Through this, a richer and more complex story of past sea-level rise develops; a story that may just have resonance for us today.

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

Bloomsbury Academic

How did small-scale societies in the past experience and respond to sea-level rise? What happened when their dwellings, hunting grounds and ancestral lands were lost under an advancing tide? This book asks these questions in relation to the hunter-gatherer inhabitants of a lost prehistoric land; a land that became entirely inundated and now lies beneath the North Sea. It seeks to understand how these people viewed and responded to their changing environment, suggesting that people were not struggling against nature, but simply getting on with life – with all its trials and hardships, satisfactions and pleasures, and with a multitude of choices available. At the same time, this loss of land – the loss of places and familiar locales where myths were created and identities formed – would have profoundly affected people's sense of being. This book moves beyond the static approach normally applied to environmental change in the past to capture its nuances. Through this, a richer and more complex story of past sea-level rise develops; a story that may just have resonance for us today.

Footmarks: A Journey Into our Restless Past

Archaeologist Jim Leary reanimates the past with this riveting “archaeology of movement” 
All too often we think of the past as static, “frozen in time,” and indeed movement is not always easy to decipher from the archaeological record. With Jim Leary's expert eye we explore the tangible remains, from fossilized footprint tracks to prehistoric wooden trackways, ridgeways, holloways, driveways, green ways, corpse roads, and Roman roads. Isotope studies and archaeogenetics now allow us to see the arduous journeys that people made across continents and oceans, proving that migration has been continuous throughout our past, an endless ebb and flow of populations. 
This new story of our past shows that history was warm and full of life, but also at times cold, dark and miserable – but it was never motionless. Footmarks will make you look at the landscape around you with fresh eyes.

Europe

Icon Books

Written by two people with unrivalled information from the recent work and knowledge of Silbury Hill and combining scholarly research and readable narrative, this book sets out the archaeological story of Silbury: from an early recognition of its importance to antiquarian and archaeological investigations of the hill. The book describes each event, setting it within its own historical and political context; the story of the monument hanging off the enigmatic and eccentric characters of the time. The collapse on the summit in 2000, leading to the opening of the hill’s famous tunnel in 2007 to much media fanfare, is covered. For the first time the results of the recent work are set out in detail, describing early activity on the site, the origins of the monument and the construction techniques used. Numerous new and vivid reconstruction drawings present a new interpretation of this iconic prehistoric monument. The book also describes how the monument was seen and used by later communities; from the Roman small town that grew up around the hill – the inhabitants quite literally living in its shadow; to medieval buildings on the summit. The final chapter discusses what Silbury means to people today: its power and spirituality for locals, visitors, New Agers and Druids alike.

The Story of Silbury Hill (English Heritage)

Field, David

Historic England

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Roman Archaeology in the Upper Reaches of the Walbrook Valley: Excavations at 6-8 Tokenhouse Yard, London EC2 (Pre-Construct Archaeology Monograph)

Past Mobilities: Archaeological Approaches to Movement and Mobility

Past Mobilities: Archaeological Approaches to Movement and Mobility

The Remembered Land: Surviving Sea-level Rise after the Last Ice Age (Debates in Archaeology)

The Remembered Land: Surviving Sea-level Rise after the Last Ice Age (Debates in Archaeology)

Footmarks: A Journey Into our Restless Past

Footmarks: A Journey Into our Restless Past

The Story of Silbury Hill (English Heritage)