London Bridge : 2000 years of a river crossing /

London Bridge : 2000 years of a river crossing /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Watson, Bruce, 1959-
Imprint:[London] : Museum of London Archaeology Service, c2001.
Description:xviii, 258 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Language:English
Series:MoLAS monograph ; 8
Subject:
Bridges -- England -- London -- History.
Bridges.
London Bridge (London, England) -- History.
England -- London.
England -- London -- London Bridge.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4663632
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Other authors / contributors:Brigham, Trevor.
Dyson, Tony, 1942-
Museum of London. Archaeology Service.
ISBN:1901992187
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Nicholas P. Brooks
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. The archaeological background to London Bridge
  • 1.2. The structure of the publication
  • 2. The Thames and the Southwark waterfront in the pre-Roman period
  • 2.1. Geology and natural topography of Southwark
  • 2.2. The study area: prehistoric activity
  • 2.3. The study area: pre-Roman fluvial deposit
  • 3. The Thames and the Southwark waterfront in the Roman period
  • 3.1. The eastern area: Toppings Wharf
  • 3.2. The western area: Fennings Wharf
  • 3.3. The Southwark waterfront in the Roman period
  • 3.4. The Roman river level
  • 3.5. Post-Roman river levels
  • 4. Roman London bridge
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. The construction of the Roman bridge: a chronological framework
  • 4.3. The northern bridgehead
  • 4.4. The southern bridgehead
  • 4.5. Artefactual evidence for the bridge
  • 4.6. Structural evidence for the bridge
  • 4.7. The coin evidence: a date for the bridge?
  • 4.8. Roman bridge construction
  • 4.9. Bridge 1: AD 50-85/90
  • 4.10. Bridge 2: AD 85/90-100/20
  • 4.11. Bridge 3: AD/90/120-400
  • 4.12. A suggested reconstruction of bridge 3
  • 4.13. Who built Roman London bridge?
  • 4.14. The end of the bridge
  • 5. The late Saxon bridgehead
  • 5.1. The military significance of the London bridge and the Southwark bridgehead
  • 5.2. The reoccupation of the London bridgehead
  • 5.3. The reoccupation of the Southwark bridgehead
  • 5.4. The documentary evidence for Saxo-Norman London bridge
  • 5.5. The archaeological evidence for the first Saxo-Norman London bridge
  • 5.6. Late Saxon bridge building
  • 6. The erosion of the Saxo-Norman and medieval foreshore
  • 6.1. The erosion of the Saxo-Norman Southwark bridgehead foreshore
  • 6.2. The erosion of the city foreshore
  • 6.3. The reclamation and revetments of the Southwark foreshore upstream of the bridgehead during the 11th and 12th centuries
  • 6.4. The reclamation and revetments of the downstream Southwark bridgehead foreshore during the 11th and 12th centuries
  • 6.5. The Saxo-Norman Fennings Wharf revetments: a discussion
  • 6.6. The influence of reclamation on the hydrology of the River Thames
  • 7. The Saxo-Norman timber bridge
  • 7.1. The documentary evidence
  • 7.2. Rebuilding Saxo-Norman London bridge
  • 7.3. The 12th-century caissons
  • 7.4. Reconstructing the timber bridge
  • 8. The construction of the Colechurch bridge
  • 8.1. The decision to build in stone
  • 8.2. Building the stone bridge
  • 8.3. The design of the stone bridge
  • 8.4. The construction of the southern abutment
  • 8.5. Downstream revetments and foreshore contemporary with the Colechurch bridge
  • 8.6. Upstream riverwall and foreshore contemporary with the Colechurch bridge
  • 8.7. Buildings of the southern bridgehead broadly contemporary with the Colechurch bridge
  • 9. The buildings and spaces on the medieval bridge and their use
  • 9.1. The buildings on the bridge
  • 9.2. The Stonegate
  • 9.3. The Drawbridge Gate
  • 9.4. The chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr
  • 9.5. Music at the chapel of St. Thomas, London Bridge, in the later Middle Ages
  • 9.6. Pageantry on London Bridge
  • 9.7. The corn mills and waterworks at London Bridge
  • 9.8. London Bridge and the Thames fisheries
  • 9.9. Conclusion: the importance of London Bridge
  • 10. The maintenance and repair of London Bridge
  • 10.1. The Bridge House archive
  • 10.2. Maintaining London Bridge - gifts, tolls and rents
  • 10.3. The Bridge House workforce
  • 10.4. Maintaining the starlings
  • 10.5. Maintaining the bridge: purchase of materials
  • 11. 'London Bridge is broken down'
  • 11.1. London Bridge: the nursery rhyme
  • 11.2. The enlargement of the southern abutment
  • 11.3. Broken bridges
  • 12. The medieval Bridge Foot
  • 12.1. The buildings of the southern Bridge Foot
  • 12.2. The 13th-century river erosion at St. Olave's Wharf
  • 13. The last days of old London Bridge
  • 13.1. Westminster Bridge
  • 13.2. Post-medieval modifications to London Bridge
  • 13.3. The influence of London Bridge on the hydrology of the Thames
  • 13.4. The rebuilding of London Bridge
  • 13.5. Fragments of old London Bridge in south-east England today
  • 13.6. Replacing Rennie's bridge
  • 13.7. The rediscovery of medieval London Bridge
  • 14. Specialist appendices
  • 14.1. Summary of the Fennings Wharf and Toppings Wharf dating sequences
  • 14.2. Tree-ring analysis of the Roman and medieval timbers from medieval London Bridge and its environs
  • 14.3. Aspects of the woodwork from medieval London Bridge and its associated waterfronts
  • 14.4. The Roman pottery from Fennings Wharf
  • 14.5. Medieval and later pottery from excavations at Fennings Wharf with a reassessment of the Toppings Wharf material
  • 14.6. The accessioned finds from Fennings Wharf
  • 14.7. Two wooden statues from the site of medieval London Bridge
  • 14.8. The animal bones from Fennings Wharf
  • 14.9. The plant remains from Fennings Wharf
  • 14.10. The bones of Peter of Colechurch
  • 14.11. The building materials and geological samples from Fennings Wharf
  • 14.12. Saxo-Norman London bridge and Southwark - the saga evidence reconsidered
  • 14.13. The ex situ London Bridge material from Stanwell House, Richmond, Surrey. French and German summaries.

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