X.—Recent Discoveries in connexion with Roman London

Abstract

Early in January, 1905, the street called London Wall was opened by the Post Office authorities for the purpose of laying telephone mains. Operations were begun at Moorgate Street and were carried in an easterly direction, a deep trench being dug in the middle of the roadway. The excavations had extended past Salisbury House as far as Circus Place, when it was noticed that among the débris thrown at the side of the road were quantities of ragstone and Roman tile, showing clearly that the city wall was being cut into.

‘The debatable territory where geology and archaeology meet’: reassessing the early archaeobotanical work of Clement Reid and Arthur Lyell at Roman Silchester

“…Reid and Lyell did, though, continue to undertake sporadic archaeobotanical analyses at prehistoric and Roman sites in Britain, including waterlogged plant remains from pits and wells at Caerwent (1902)(1903)(1904)(1905)(1906)(1907)(1908)(1909) (Reid and Lyell 1911;Boon 1978), a ditch at Canon St, London (Norman and Reader 1906) and a well at the Roman fort at Pevensey, Sussex (Salzmann 1908, 134). Reid was also on the excavation committee of the Glastonbury Lake village (Coles 2004), and continued to examine botanical material sent to him from excavations, such as box leaves from a Roman child inhumation burial at Cann, Dorset (Gray 1918).…”