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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 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…
Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, Mitcham
A large post-Roman or ‘Anglo-Saxon’ cemetery was excavated by Harold Bidder and members of his family between 1888 and 1922. A definitive article by Bidder and John Morris on the…
Bulletin 230
May 22, 2024
Download Bulletin 230 June 2024 – Bulletin 230 Model of Merton Priory – Christine Pittman Harvey and Knight, Floor-Cloth Manufacturers – Norma Cox Pystyll Hyll and the Cuddington/Cheam parish boundary…
Bulletin 146
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 146 June 2003 – Bulletin 146 Missing Piece of the Puzzle (Abbey Lodge) – P J Hopkins Samuel John Tracy – J A Goodman ‘This Sickly Gaol’ (Southwark)…
Bulletin 145
April 22, 2017
…demolished in the 1960s, when the MHS took the opportunity to excavate the site, revealing the footings of a .necessary house. and a quantity of (informative) 18th-century rubbish. Somewhere near…
Bulletin 142
April 22, 2017
…near Guildford, all sites where pagan Saxon burials were excavated, along with slightly later execution burials. Graham then pointed out the name Great Hobalds within the Morden Park estate. …..
Bulletin 132
April 22, 2017
…Morden. Sections of it have been excavated in Stonecot Hill. According to the report, Bernard Sunley, whose firm was the main contractor for the Crown House development, presented some of…
Bulletin 198
April 22, 2017
…different one, Cheam kiln 2 (right, copyright Clive Orton). The wasters were similar to those discovered in the 1936 and 1940 digs. Finally, in 1978 Norman Nail excavated most of…
Bulletin 129
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 129 March 1999 – Bulletin 129 Adrian IV – L E Green The Rudd monument in Morden churchyard – W J Rudd Francis Merritt of Mitcham, victualler –…
Bulletin 128
April 22, 2017
…8. Appointment of President and a Vice-President. Election of Life Members. a. The Chairman reminded us that the first President of our Society, Col. Bidder, excavated the Anglo- Saxon cemetery…
Bulletin 126
April 22, 2017
…seems possible that a pre-existing (?Roman) feature (?burial mound) was later used to accommodate a gallows. Later still, in the 18th century, it was enlarged with material excavated for the…
Bulletin 162
April 22, 2017
…a kiln excavated in Croydon have been found in London and in Canterbury, and Reigate stone has been uncovered at pre-Boudiccan sites in London. Over the centuries, these southern counties…