III.—Some Recent Excavations in London

Abstract

The discoveries recorded in the following pages cover, in more than one sense, a considerable period of time. Some of them were made as early as the spring of 1915, immediately after the present author had read a paper on a similar subject, which was later published in Archaeologia, lxvi. The bulk, however, are the fruits of the resumption of building operations in 1919 and 1920, after the great blank interval of the War. It is not proposed, in the description of the finds, to distinguish exactly between these periods, for the sites investigated fall by a happy chance into two groups–one in King William Street, the other about London Wall and Finsbury Circus–each of which can be treated as a whole. It will be sufficient for the present purpose to note that one site from each group–the Comptoir National from the first, and 12 to 26 Finsbury Circus from the second–was excavated in 1915, and the rest between the autumn of 1919 and the summer of 1921.