The upper Walbrook valley cemetery of Roman London: excavations at Finsbury Circus, City of London, 1987–2007 cemetery and related buildings

cemetery and related buildings

This volume provides evidence for the Barge

Tim Halliday

The defensive ditch was redug in the Late Saxon period and the Roman wall repaired

with the area becoming the site of the Greyfriars Friary in 1225

The upper Walbrook valley cemetery of Roman London: excavations at Finsbury Circus, City of London, 1987–2007 cemetery and related buildings2015 Chiz Harward, Natasha Powers and Sadie Watson The unusual quantity of skulls found in the sediments of the Roman Walbrook stream in London has been attributed to a range of causes, from the disposal of massacre victims to the continuity of a largely imagined pre Roman cult of the head. Excavations in Finsbury Circus offer a more prosaic explanation. Here, a cemetery occupied marginal land where human remains, particularly skulls, were frequently