Books Purchased 2013

The Essex Society for Archaeology and History has one of the most important local history and archaeology reference libraries in the country.  We are pleased to have it housed at the Albert Sloman Library at the Colchester campus of the University of Essex.   The Library may be used by any Society member who has a Readers Card.  Books are added constantly about the county of Essex with other publications relating to or having a bearing on the study of the County.  Our Library Committee has recently purchased the following books for accession to add to the several hundred books and periodicals sorted and donated this year.

E. Stafford, Goodburn, D. and Bates, M. Oxford Archaeology Monograph 17.  Landscape and Prehistory of the east London wetlands (2012)

Subtitled ‘Investigations along the A13 DBFO Roadscheme, Tower Hamlets, Newham and Barking and Dagenham, 2000-2003. Softback. 313 pages including index.

Bates, M. and Stafford, E.  Thames Holocene: A Geoarchaeological Approach to the Investigation of the River Floodplain for High Speed 1, 1994-2003 (2013)

With discussion of High Speed 2 in the news, this 2013 hardback book – 428 pages with index – considers the archaeology of the London end of High Speed 1. There are chapters devoted to the Lea Valley, Dagenham and Hornchurch Marshes, Rainham and Wennington Marshes – where the line appears above ground having left St Pancras International , Aveley Marsh, The Thames River Crossing and The Ebbsfleet Valley – designated as a new garden city.

E. Biddulph, S. Foreman, D. Stansbie and R. Nicholson  Oxford Archaeology Monograph 18  London Gateway, Iron age and Roman Salt Making in the Thames Estuary: excavation at Stanford Wharf Nature reserve, Essex  (2012)

Stanford Wharf, a nature reserve in Essex, is said to be an important milestone in the development of London Gateway. The reserve was created from farmland to the west of the new deep container port site.  Hardback, 209 pages including index.

R. Cowie, L. Blackmore, with A. Davis, J. Keily, and K. Rielly Monograph Series 63  Lundenwic: excavations in Middle Saxon London, 1987–2000 (2012)

Lundewic is the site of a Middle Saxon trading port just north of the former Roman town of London. It was active between the late seventh century and ninth century. The book contains reports of excavations of several sites. Hardback, 361 pages, index, and CD ROM of artefacts.

A. Cooper  British Archaeological Reports 577  Prehistory in Practice: a multi stranded analysis of British Archaeology, 1975-2010 (2013)

A book about archaeology rather than archaeology itself. 166 pages. Huge bibliography.