SALON NO.87: Constructing Medieval London

Saxon the City

The Salon will be held via the Zoom platform with two speakers, an interval, some high jinx plus a joint Q+A.  

TICKETS £4.50 -Joining and attendence details will be emailed to you nearer the event. Bring your own refreshments :)
 
Beneath the streets of the contemporary city lie the remains and ghosts of previous Londons- including Saxon Lundenwic and Norman Londonburgh. Join archaeologists GUSTAV MILNE and NATHALIE COHEN on a time travelling tour of the traces of the Medieval city.
 
 

The Salon will be held online via the Zoom platform. Details of how to join will be emailed you before the event.

 
GUSTAV MILNE explores how from AD600-900 the port of Saxon London was focused on the open foreshore south of the Strand, near Covent Garden, but shifted to the site of the abandoned Roman City of Londinium in AD900. 
Another major relocation of the core of the port occurred when the first major medieval bridge was built by c AD1000 after which the beach markets established there gradually changed during the 12th and 13th centuries as the types of ships centuries, as the types of ships visiting the harbour changed and as a new merchant class began building warehouses and major wharf installations. 
 
There were over 120 parish churches in medieval London alongside the buildings of monastic communities, across the city and its suburbs. 
as the types of ships centuries, as the types of ships visiting the harbour changed and as a new merchant class began building warehouses and major wharf installations. 
 
There were over 120 parish churches in medieval London alongside the buildings of monastic communities, across the city and its suburbs. 
 
NATHALIE COHEN investigates some of the origins, development and destruction of these places, and the archaeological research that has been undertaken to learn more about them. From the investigations of gentleman antiquarians to modern excavations by professional archaeologists, we will explore the archaeology of religion in London, from the materials of the buildings' construction to artefacts of faith and ritual.
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GUSTAV MILNE has worked as an archaeologist for the Guildhall Museum, The Museum of London's Department of Urban Archaeology, for MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) and has also taught course on Medieval Archaeology at University College London.

Many of the sites he excavated were associated with the Roman and Medieval harbour. He also set up the community-based Thames Discovery Programme as well as the national community-based CITiZAN coastal archaeology project. NATHALIE COHEN is the Cathedral Archaeologist for Canterbury Cathedral. She led the Thames Discovery Programme, a community archaeology project exploring London’s inter-tidal foreshore, for ten years. She has worked and published extensively on the medieval archaeology of Cripplegate.