There’s a great lineup at the LAF this autumn – with presentations on topics ranging from the Ice Age to the Georgian period. And the winner of the prestigious London Archaeological Prize – the ‘publication prize’ – for works published in 2022/2023 will also be announced.
When: Monday, November 18 from 6-7:30pm GMT
Where: UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY
Booking is free and anyone with an interest in London’s archaeology is very welcome. Register for your place before 1pm on 18th November.
Here are the contributors and their topics:
- Matt Pope, Associate Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, will discuss London’s Ice Age archaeology and environments. He will explore the rich record of Greater London’s Ice Age past through key sites and the history of their discovery, from first recorded Palaeolithic tool to be found through to recent professional commercial excavations. He’ll also consider evidence for how London’s landscape was shaped by ice and water, and how early human populations adapted, or not, to the dramatic cycles of climate change evidenced in the gravels and clays of the city’s deep past.
- Alistair Douglas, Senior Archaeologist and Health and Safety Manager at Pre-Construct Archaeology, will report on PCA’s recent archaeological Investigations on and around Bermondsey Square in Southwark. He’ll focus on the period before the foundation of Bermondsey Priory (later abbey) including tantalizing evidence of Iron Age, Roman and Saxon settlement of Bermondsey.
- John Schofield, who has worked at former Museum of London and as Consultant Archaeologist to St Paul’s, has written extensively about the archaeology of the City, most recently London’s Waterfront 1666 to 1800 and its World. He will describe waterfront excavations of 1974-84 that revealed post-Great Fire buildings and intriguing aspects of London’s crucial involvement in slavery: cowrie shells, found in the floor levels of warehouses near Billingsgate of around 1700.
- Alison Telfer of MOLA is on the committee of London Archaeologist and coordinates the administration of the London Archaeological Prize, awarded biennially for the best publication of the preceding two years. She will be announcing the winner and awarding the prize at the LAF.
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Evidence for a possible Saxon minster in section during excavations at Bermondsey Square.
