Circular ditch and barrow found in excavations of medieval london bridge by museum of london see book below etc...or go to Museum of London for records...
Watson, Brigham, and Dyson, London bridge: 2000 years of a river crossing
This fine volume is really just an excavation report for the very difficult excavations, undertaken in 1983—4, on the Fennings and Toppings Wharf sites on the Southwark riverfront just to the east of the modern London Bridge abutment. It is also, however, much more than that, as its title suggests, and the volume has now become the definitive account of the archaeology and history of the most important bridge in London. It is, therefore, a worthy successor of Gordon Hume's fine book, Old London Bridge (1931), published exactly 70 years earlier. As Professor Nicholas Brooks, the historian of Rochester bridge, writes in his forward 'We are presented here with a new wonderfully researched and fully integrated interpretation'. The Museum of London Archaeology Service must be congratulated on publishing an exceptional volume, which at only £22.00 is a bargain. The volume draws together all the evidence chronologically in 14 sections, the final one being a series of specialist appendices, which range from dendrochronology and finds reports to a brief interpretation of the evidence for the bridge in the Norwegian Olaf sagas.
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Review in Medieval Archaeology, 2002
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