Dougie Killock’s talk to COLAS presenting the preliminary results of our excavations on the site of the Hampton by Hilton London City hotel in Aldgate, which took place as part of the hotel’s development. We found archaeology dating from the Roman period, when the site was located close to the main road to Colchester, through to the late 19th century. The excavation recorded extensive evidence of gravel quarrying dating to the Roman and medieval periods. The finds recovered included high status imported ceramics and artefacts associated local manufacturing notably glass-making, sugar production and bell founding.
