Main entry:

Watson, Bruce, 1959-

Title & Author:

London Bridge : 2000 years of a river crossing / Bruce Watson, Trevor Brigham and Tony Dyson.

Publication:

[London] : Museum of London Archaeology Service, ©2001.

Description:

xviii, 258 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.

Series:

MoLAS monograph ; 8

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-253) and index.
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.r 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.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP20.00 0.
Includes summaries in French and German.

ISBN:

1901992187 (pbk.)
9781901992182 (pbk.)

Subject:

Bridges England London History.
Ponts Angleterre Londres Histoire.
Bridges.
Opgravingen.
Bruggen (weg- en waterbouw)
Archaeology.
History.
Civil engineering.
London Bridge (London, England) History.
London Bridge (Londres, Angleterre) Histoire.
England London.
England London London Bridge.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Brigham, Trevor.
Dyson, Tony.
Museum of London. Archaeology Service.
MoLAS monograph ; 8.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226084
Call No.: TG64.L8 W3 2001
Status: Available