From Ice Age to Essex: a history of the people and landscape of East London Paul Bryan

Paul Bryan

MOLA Monograph Series 69

Bruno Barber

This book shares the discoveries made through detailed archaeological recording and conservation at Knole

From Ice Age to Essex: a history of the people and landscape of East London Paul Bryan2006 Pamela Greenwood, Dominic Perring, Peter Rowsome Half a million years ago ice sheets pushed the Thames south, depositing river gravels across East London. People began quarrying gravel in ancient times and the modern aggregates industry has workings here. Archaeological work at quarry sites has resulted in spectacular discoveries from prehistoric ritual sites and flint arrowheads to finds such as a Roman stone coffin and beautiful Early Saxon