CUSTOM HOUSE EXCAVATION (CUS73)
LECTURE JANUARY 3rd 2024
WHERE WERE YOU FIFTY YEARS AGO?
Did you work on the Old Custom House site (CUS73) or on the ensuing publications?
If so, you'll be pleased to know that, on Wednesday January 3rd 2024, Tim Tatton-Brown is giving a lecture for the British Archaeological Associationat the Society of Antiquaries (Burlington House, W1) to celebrate this now legendary excavation.
Put the date in your diary and let Tim know by using the Comments below and we will pass it on to him.
PS. There is a party after the lecture where drinks will be available.
Tim directed the site in Lower Thames Street fifty years ago, from July 30th to November 17th 1973, as well as its prompt publication in 1974 and 1975. This proved to be a hugely significant project, and not just for the remarkable finds. It was set up by the Guildhall Museum's newly-formed Department of Urban Archaeology, and is now recognised as the site which kick-started the City's internationally important and long-running Roman and Medieval waterfront project. This was energetically taken forward by the Museum of London archaeological team over the next two decades, building directly on the invaluable expertise gained there.
Way back in 1973, the Guildhall Museum's staff included Max Hebditch, John Clark, Tony Dyson and Peter Marsden, as well as the late Hugh Chapman and Ralph Merrifield. The field and finds team included Gil Burleigh, Alex Campbell, Andrew Cauldwell, Gerald Clewley, Peter Ellis, Geoff Denford, Lee Gillibrand, Peter Leach, Wendy McIssac, Vanessa Mead, Gustav Milne, Peter 'Jamie' Muir, Martin O'Connell and Brian Yule, as well as many students from the Institute of Archaeology and a committed army of volunteers from the City of London Archaeology Society (COLAS)
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