Excavation ahead of redevelopment by London Underground Limited
uncovered flint tools and debitage characteristic of the Mesolithic and
Neolithic periods and Early Bronze Age. Activity resumed in the Late
Bronze Age. A neonate skeleton of Early Iron Age date was recovered from
a rubbish pit near a probable roundhouse. Two crouched adult inhumations
are atypically early Roman. Two horse burials and a dog skeleton are
also of Roman date. Thereafter, occupation ceased until post-medieval
times. Overall, the work provides invaluable information relating to the
development of the landscape beneath the suburbs of modern east London.