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London: A Companion to its History and Archaeology

Malcolm Billings

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Description:"A lavishly illustrated guide to the parts of historic London you can see and touch."London's story is full of surprises. Although the city suffered destructive fires and the devastating Blitz of the Second World War, a remarkable amount of objects, monuments and fragments of buildings from the past have survived.*Who would have thought that the entire Roman quayside of the Port of London was still intact under the streets, well inland from the present line of the Thames? It was all there - massive timbers representing great swathes of English oak forests - waiting to be discovered during the redevelopment of the City in the 1980's.*Archaeologists, breaking through the basements of nineteenth century buildings, have shown that London has gone from boom to bust and back again many times in its history. We now have proof that much of the walled city was deserted during four centuries of Saxon rule. At times it must have seemed positively rural!*Perhaps most fascinating of all was the discovery of the first big bust - the fire that devastated London in AD 60. Archaeologists, working six metres (sic) beneath the modern streets, came across the charred debris of the disaster - scorched clay walls and floors, burnt pottery, the remains of furniture and stores. Everything had been destroyed, including no doubt many Londoners, when the barbarian Queen Boudicca rode into town and put the city to the torch.Such details of the history of London are new; the information became available only through the demolition and rebuilding of much of the City during the boom years of the 1980's. Some of the new sites from Roman London have been preserved for posterity in the basements of today's buildings.It is to such sites that London, A Companion to its History and Archaeology directs its readers. London's story weaves in and out of places where some vestige of the past remains: the upstanding stretches of the Roman and medieval wall; the preserved timbers of the Roman dockside in the Museum of London; the crypts of churches where you can trace the bricks and mortar of Saxon and Norman predecessors; and above ground a wealth of seventeenth-century architecture preserved in the forty-odd surviving churches designed by Christopher Wren after the Great Fire.There is a spirit of adventure in this book as the text takes the reader through the main chapters of London's history while pausing in the doorways and alleys of the modern city to evoke the atmosphere of ancient places of which only the names survive, and to marvel at the architectural and archaeological gems of our capital city.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with London: A Companion to its History and Archaeology. To get started finding London: A Companion to its History and Archaeology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 208

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Kyle Cathie Ltd., London

Release: 1994

ISBN: 1856261530

Description: "A lavishly illustrated guide to the parts of historic London you can see and touch."London's story is full of surprises. Although the city suffered destructive fires and the devastating Blitz of the Second World War, a remarkable amount of objects, monuments and fragments of buildings from the past have survived.*Who would have thought that the entire Roman quayside of the Port of London was still intact under the streets, well inland from the present line of the Thames? It was all there - massive timbers representing great swathes of English oak forests - waiting to be discovered during the redevelopment of the City in the 1980's.*Archaeologists, breaking through the basements of nineteenth century buildings, have shown that London has gone from boom to bust and back again many times in its history. We now have proof that much of the walled city was deserted during four centuries of Saxon rule. At times it must have seemed positively rural!*Perhaps most fascinating of all was the discovery of the first big bust - the fire that devastated London in AD 60. Archaeologists, working six metres (sic) beneath the modern streets, came across the charred debris of the disaster - scorched clay walls and floors, burnt pottery, the remains of furniture and stores. Everything had been destroyed, including no doubt many Londoners, when the barbarian Queen Boudicca rode into town and put the city to the torch.Such details of the history of London are new; the information became available only through the demolition and rebuilding of much of the City during the boom years of the 1980's. Some of the new sites from Roman London have been preserved for posterity in the basements of today's buildings.It is to such sites that London, A Companion to its History and Archaeology directs its readers. London's story weaves in and out of places where some vestige of the past remains: the upstanding stretches of the Roman and medieval wall; the preserved timbers of the Roman dockside in the Museum of London; the crypts of churches where you can trace the bricks and mortar of Saxon and Norman predecessors; and above ground a wealth of seventeenth-century architecture preserved in the forty-odd surviving churches designed by Christopher Wren after the Great Fire.There is a spirit of adventure in this book as the text takes the reader through the main chapters of London's history while pausing in the doorways and alleys of the modern city to evoke the atmosphere of ancient places of which only the names survive, and to marvel at the architectural and archaeological gems of our capital city.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with London: A Companion to its History and Archaeology. To get started finding London: A Companion to its History and Archaeology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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