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.
This book presents the archaeological and documentary evidence for medieval activity here, on the north-eastern fringe of the historic city, and the site of the Augustinian priory and hospital of St Mary without Bishopsgate, later known as St Mary Spital. A pre-existing extramural and extraparochial cemetery became the priory's principal cemetery.
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