MERTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY Search results for ""excavate#""
Abbey Roads: a modern pilgrimage
April 13, 2017
by W J Rudd William John (‘Bill’) Rudd was born in Brixton, south London, in 1925. But in 1930, when he was five, the family moved to Morden (now in…
Bulletin 143
April 22, 2017
…2m, and 8m x 2m. A 10th-12th century roadside ditch was the earliest feature excavated, and ran across the eastern limits of the site. A possible 10th-12th century wall foundation,…
14 Upper Mitcham and Western Road
April 16, 2017
…but, disappointingly, nothing of archaeological significance was observed. This lack of success was perhaps due in part to the fact that the trenches were excavated mechanically, and partly also to…
Lower Morden and Morden Park
April 15, 2017
…Morden. A large Saxon cemetery has been excavated across the Wandle, within Mitcham. The names of local settlements date from Saxon times. Morden probably means “hill in a swampy place”….
09 Colliers Wood or ‘Merton Singlegate’
April 16, 2017
Mitcham Histories 9 by Eric Montague An outlying settlement within the future parish of Mitcham, Colliers Wood can be identified with a Saxon estate, and a substantial house may be…
Bulletin 231
September 13, 2024
…approximate site of the priory church is here marked on a 1929 aerial photo (right).4 The priory church and chapter house foundations were excavated by Lt. Col H F Bidder…
04 Lower Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…century.3 Until the 1920s the grounds of Mitcham Hall terminated to the south at the cutting excavated for the Wimbledon to Croydon railway, opened in 1855. Before the advent of…
A Priory Revealed
April 13, 2017
by Lionel Green A Priory Revealed, which bears the subtitle – ‘using material relating to Merton Priory’ – draws upon a wide range of primary and secondary sources in order…
Bulletin 227
September 29, 2023
…to have used the same layout. Only one was fully excavated. Substantial remains of thick brick walls divided several rectangular rooms, mostly of uncertain function. One would have been a…
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May 26, 2017
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Bulletin 204
December 15, 2017
…precinct was obvious (from the priory wall), but there were no visible remains of the internal buildings. In the 1920s Bidder excavated around Merton Abbey railway station, revealing the church….
Bulletin 183
April 22, 2017
…Tithe Apportionment of 1848 recorded the study site as lying within a larger plot of “Meadow: Now arable…’. Archaeological Results Three evaluation trenches were initially excavated, covering a total area…
Bulletin 124
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 124 December 1997 – Bulletin 124 Trains to Trams – D Luff Esther Maria Cranmer’s Recipe Book – E N Montague Joseph Chapman Retter – B Webb Bunce’s…
Bulletin 147
April 22, 2017
…debate. The entire site could not be completely excavated due to the banks of Bennett’s ditch having been raised as a prevention against flooding. Liberty had washing facilities alongside and…
Bulletin 157
April 22, 2017
…excavated a Romano-British site in the 1960s which produced three inhumations plus occupational debris. Museum of London Archaeology Service have since undertaken further work on the site and uncovered several…
Bulletin 153
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 153 March 2005 – Bulletin 153 The Smith Tomb, St Mary’s Merton Park – D Muirhead Return to ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Oct 2004 – T Kelley The Knights Templar –…
Bulletin 150
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 150 June 2004 – Bulletin 150 The Grove Mill and Crown Mill site, Mitcham – G Potter Access to the Priory – C Maidment The site of the…
Bulletin 149
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 149 March 2004 – Bulletin 149 Wimbledon’s Lord Mayor of London – E Lilley Charles Greaves of Merton Place & his Family – J Latham John Mantell Canon…
Bulletin 148
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 148 December 2003 – Bulletin 148 Morden Hall before Morden Hall! – P J Hopkins A Personal History of Morden Hall Park – M Healey The Destruction of…