London Under Ground: The Archaeology of a City

London's archaeology is as complex and varied as the city is today. These seventeen papers survey twenty-five years of London archaeology in the city and its environs from prehistory to 1800. Contents: Introduction (H Sheldon and I Haynes); Towards the development of a settled landscape in London c.4000-1200 BC (J Cotton); Changing approaches to the first milolennium (N Merriman); The Roman city (M Hassall); Art in Roman London (M Henig); Religion (I Haynes); Evidence from Roman London's cemeteries (B Barber and J Hall); Roman Southwark (H Sheldon); Roads, roadside settlements and their countryside (D G Bird); Early and middle Saxon archaeology (R Cowie); Late Saxon and Norman London (J Clark); Buildings and defences 1200-1600 (J Schofield); Medieval pottery (A Vince); Tudor and Stuart playhouses (S Blatherwick); Morturay archaeology to 1800 (V Harding); Environmental archaeology (J Sidell); Archaeology of London, 1973-1997 (R Cowie and R Densem).