Charterhouse Square by Sam Pfizenmaier

Charterhouse Square by Sam Pfizenmaier

The story of London’s Clerkenwell and Smithfield neighbourhood, from prehistory through to the present day, is illustrated by archaeological investigations undertaken as part of the Crossrail Central development. Excavation showed how, from being on the margins of the city, this area was occupied by religious houses and a cattle market, before developing into a densely packed suburb as London’s population exploded. Charterhouse Square was known to be the site of the West Smithfield cemetery, one of two London emergency burial grounds established during the Black Death (1348–9); the 25 individuals excavated are the first large group of burials recovered. The plague pathogen was identified in skeletons from each of three phases of burial, indicating that these were the victims of multiple plague outbreaks from the Black Death into the 15th century. Also located as it flowed west into the Fleet was the Faggeswell brook – the southern boundary of the plague cemetery and of the monastic precinct of the London Charterhouse, founded in 1371. This massive ditch had been filled in the mid 17th century with rubbish and waste from the livestock market and nearby households, some evidently wealthy.

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ISBN 13	9781907586415
ISBN 10	1907586415
Titel	Charterhouse Square
Autor	Sam Pfizenmaier
Serie	Crossrail Archaeology
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Museum of London Archaeology
Erscheinungsjahr	2016-11-01
Seitenanzahl	152
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