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Survey of London
… Archaeological evidence above ground Description CHAPTER I. The Archaeological Evidence above Ground Description When … to a king) was dilapidated, perhaps even in ruins, and the remainder divided into tenements: and when, in 1759, … of such events, institutions and persons in the popular history of Hackney as appealed most strongly to a romantic …
Survey of London
… evidence below ground Introduction CHAPTER II The Archaeological Evidence below Ground The removal of the … the area unencumbered, with the bases of walls exposed and providing an outline plan of the building as it had come … and therefore of no value for the earlier phases of its history which were the chief target of this excavation. As …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Archaeology The Beaker Period THE BEAKER PERIOD While the Neolithic cultures were flourishing, fresh bands of continental immigrants entered Britain. 56 These were the … pottery. They evidently landed at various times and places on the south and east coasts, 57 whence they …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Archaeology The Bronze Age THE BRONZE AGE For the purpose of this section the Bronze Age in southern Britain is … There is no evidence that during this period the climatic and general environment of the Thames valley differed from …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Archaeology The Iron Age THE IRON AGE By about 1200 B.C., during the … the Near East. From there the knowledge spread to southern and central Europe and eventually to Britain. 3 The earliest … with the Hallstatt daggers from the Thames. 49 The history of the rest of the pre-Roman Iron Age in Middlesex is …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Archaeology The Lower Palaeolithic Age ARCHAEOLOGY THE LOWER PALAEOLITHIC … when the Thames was flowing through the vale of St. Albans and, later, through the Finchley Gap, and the earliest … little value can be placed on this earlier collecting, its history is not without interest, as it reflects, to a very …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Archaeology The Mesolithic Age THE MESOLITHIC AGE The foregoing section … stages of his cultural development. So far as the evidence and available records allow, it has been shown how these … creation of the English Channel, our present island history began. The pollen-analysis of peats accumulated at …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Archaeology The Neolithic Age THE NEOLITHIC AGE 77 The first Neolithic … thousand or so years which elapsed before the appearance of bronze there is little evidence to supply an absolute, let … be made in the British Neolithic between settlers and native (Mesolithic) peoples who learned the new ways of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Archaeology The Pagan Saxon Period THE PAGAN SAXON PERIOD With the end of … with the arrival of early 'Pagan' (Teutonic) elements and to be distinct from the later period during which a … 78 Although the Middle Saxons are otherwise unknown in history, it is clear from the form in which the name appears …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Archaeology The Romano-British Period THE ROMANO-BRITISH PERIOD Maps of … the gazetteer, but the distribution pattern remains thin and difficult to explain on evironmental grounds. However, … the O.S. recs. are very full for this area. W. Robinson, History and Antiquities of Enfield, i. 57-58. Ibid. Ex inf. …