To mark the tercentenary of the establishment of freemasonry in London an exhibition was held at Sir John Soane’s Museum where the centrepiece was a reconstruction of a piece of ritual furniture known as the Ark of the Masonic Covenant designed by Soane in 1813 as an ornamental cabinet to hold th

An extensive survey of the historic windmills that once populated Lambeth and now reduced to the recently restored four storey brick Ashby's Mill at Brixton.  The text is illustrated throughout with maps, historic engravings and archive photographs. Includes a Bibliography and Glossary.

Lavish guide to the history and archaeology of a large redevelopment site in the city of London.

Extensive historical and excavation report of a pre-development Central London Thames wharf site exposing Roman, Medieval and Post-Medieval finds of some importance to the reconstruction of the City’s past. Large format paperback. Many maps and illustrations. 96 pages.

The Blackfriars ship was a Romano-British sailing barge of the second century AD which was accidentally sunk in the Thames while carrying a cargo of building stone.

Prior to the construction of an underground car park in the grounds f the Palace of Westminster archaeological excavation revealed the base of a large C15th fountain known to have been the focal point of New Palace Yard up to the C17th and called the Great Conduit.

Contents include:  The geoarchaeology of past River Thames channels at Syon Park;  Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age activity on an eyot at Addington Street, Lambeth;  St Paul’s Cathedral: evidence for a Saxon ditch and at Paternoster Square;  Middle Saxon comb manufacture

The Walbrook was a network of southward flowing streams converging into one main channel in the middle of the City of London before emptying into the Thames.

Published to commemorate the bicentenary of the Society and describing its foundation, history and collections.  Objects described and illustrated include The Winton Domesday Survey of Winchester, still in its decorated Romanesque binding; the C13th Lindesey Psalter; the C13th St Thomas Limo

A catalogue of small finds recovered during the excavation of the Bucklersbury House site on the Walbrook in 1955.  Illustrated and described are Roman brooches, personal ornaments, metal fittings, knives, needles, toilet instruments, writing implements, horse furniture, pewter vessels, and