Greater London: Excavating the CA archive

In my second column on the archaeology of Greater London, I stroll through the Saxon town, meander through the medieval city, and finally alight on some post-medieval and modern sites. There is a lot to review here, from the evidence of London’s last Romans to those who lived here in some of its most difficult of times: the Blitz during the Second World War. Saxon Lundenwic An excellent starting point for this column is CA 213 (December 2007), which reported from St Martin-in-the-Fields church in Trafalgar Square during a redevelopment at that time. Among other finds made was that of a sarcophagus containing the body of a middle-aged man buried c.AD 390- 430, at the end of the Roman