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Using 50 fascinating objects this book tells the stories of the people that lived near Cambridge from prehistoric to medieval times as discovered from the archaeological excavations in advance of the A14 Road Improvement Scheme.

?Together with historical and archaeological evidence, results of ?2553 burials and full osteological analysis of 1786 skeletons help place the lives of the urban poor and destitute within the wider context of the 17th and 18th centuries.

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.

Modern Liverpool Street was once on the margins of London: the story of its development - from the medieval marsh of Moorfields to municipal, non-parochial, burial ground and later suburb - is illustrated by archaeological investigations undertaken as part of the Crossrail Central development.

The discovery of one of Roman Londons most significant buildings - its amphitheatre - underneath the medieval Guildhall resulted from major archaeological excavations which took place between 1985 and 1999 as part of the City of London Corporations ambitious programme of redevelopment at the Guildhall.

An account of the burial and the grave goods, and their wider context.

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.