{"id":8923,"date":"2012-07-09T14:15:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T13:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=8923"},"modified":"2012-07-09T10:47:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T09:47:26","slug":"crossrail-archaeology-exhibition-in-london-bison-to-bedlam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/crossrail-archaeology-exhibition-in-london-bison-to-bedlam\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossrail archaeology exhibition in London – Bison to Bedlam"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Put on for one day only was Crossrail’s, ‘Bison to Bedlam’\u00a0archaeology exhibition, which showed off some of the artefacts unearthed during the excavations for the\u00a0cross-London rail project.<\/p>\n

Above is a section of a ‘clinker’ boat uncovered near Canning Town. \u00a0Dating from the 13th to 15th centuries, the boat was probably used for transporting building materials, hay and wool up and down the Thames to London.<\/p>\n

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Hosted at the\u00a0Music Room near Bond Street, a fair bit of work had gone into putting on the free one-day show, which featured key\u00a0discoveries like prehistoric animal bones, Roman finds, human remains from the infamous Bedlam psychiatric hospital and remnants of Britain’s industrial past.<\/p>\n

The oldest\u00a0discovery\u00a0thus far has been bison remains found at Royal Oak, which date back to around 68,000 years old.<\/p>\n

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Excavations in Soho unearthed a large number of bottles and jars from the old Crosse and Blackwell<\/a>\u00a0store which later became the (now sadly\u00a0demolished) Astoria theatre in Charing Cross Road.<\/a><\/p>\n

A large storage cellar which had been bricked over in the stores produced what was thought to be the “largest discovery of late Victorian and early Edwardian jars in the country.”<\/p>\n

Some of these are now on display in the Museum of London<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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My favourite piece was this\u00a0playful chamber pot uncovered at Stepney Green, which dated back to the 19th century.<\/p>\n

The inscription on the side reads, “When in it you want to piss, remember they who gave you this” with a cartoon of a shocked man inside.<\/p>\n

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One of over 4,000 skeletons found beneath Liverpool Street station.<\/p>\n

The bodies were buried between 1247 and 1815 in the\u00a0burial ground of\u00a0Bethlem Royal Hospital<\/a>, with this poor chap calculated to have lived a life of\u00a0strenuous manual labour and only reaching the age of 25 when he died.<\/p>\n

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Some of the 19th-20th century glass sauce bottle stoppers from Cross and Blackwell stores.<\/p>\n

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A young visitor.<\/p>\n

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Archaeologists\u00a0were on hand to explain the finds.<\/p>\n

More info: \u00a0Crossrail<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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