دانلود کتاب Excavations at Medieval Cripplegate, London: Archaeology After the Blitz, 1946-68

Based on the work of Professor W. F. Grimes for the Roman and Mediaeval London Excavation Council, and related research by the Museum of London and by University College London.

With contributions by Tony Dyson, Jacqueline Pearce and Mike Webber. Illustrations by Susan Banks.

Ebook (PDF) published 2012.

The Cripplegate area of London was the site of a Roman fort and later of medieval structures and artefacts. Excavations between 1946 and 1968 by Professor W. F. Grimes for the Roman and Medieval London Excavation Council were carried out on 25 bomb-damaged sites, and were preliminarily reported by him in 1968. As part of a major post-excavation programme funded by English Heritage from 1992 to 1997, the archived material from these excavations are being fully published in a series of five volumes, of which this book is one. This report analyses the material afresh and re-appraises Grimes' work. It discusses the post-Roman structures and artefacts of the medieval defences, secular buildings (including evidence of Saxon London), parish churches, and a medieval hospital. Finally, these structures are put into a more contextual framework in a discussion of the dating and development of the street pattern of medieval Cripplegate.