This volume presents the results of work from five separate
developer-funded excavations between 1992-8. Bronze Age field ditches
were sealed by domestic buildings relating to the expansion of early
Roman London after AD 70, contemporary with the timber amphitheatre
located nearby beneath the Guildhall. The masonry fort was built in the
early 2nd century AD and there was no evidence of a long-suspected
predecessor. The fort's buildings seem to have gone out of use around
the end of the 2nd century AD and its southern defensive ditch was
backfilled. Extensive reoccupation came with the establishment of
burgage plots after AD 1050. Twelfth-century development included
buildings with cellars and evidence of bone- and metalworking. Birds of
prey and high-quality pottery and glass imply the presence of a
high-status person or property in the 13th century, but little survies
from after this time.