LAMAS 61st Annual Conference of London Archaeologists
Mudlarking the Thames Foreshore
This will be a hybrid event. In-person and online tickets are available via Eventbrite.
The programme will include live contributions which may be subject to change on the day.
Date and Time |
Location |
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Saturday, 15th March 2025 11 AM to 5.15 PM |
London Museum Docklands and Zoom Webinar |
Registration
In-person Tickets (Museum of London Docklands) £20
Online Tickets (Zoom) £20
Full Programme
Morning session: recent work
11.00-11.10: Welcome, introduction, and presentation of the 2023 Ralph Merrifield Award
Harvey Sheldon, Chair of Archaeology Committee
11.00-11.10: Welcome, introduction, and presentation of the 2024 Ralph Merrifield Award
Harvey Sheldon, Chair of Archaeology Committee
11.10-11.30: A late-medieval tannery at Stratford: Excavations at Jubilee House (2023-24)
Harry Platts, PCA
11.30-11.50: Mr. Treasurer's Place: Recent Excavations at the Tudor Courtier's and Royal Palace of Elsyng in Enfield
Martin Dearne, Enfield Archaeology Society
11.50-12.10: Recent discoveries at Lambeth Palace
Eben Cooper, MOLA
12.10-12.20: An update on the GLHER Online
Stuart Cakebread, GLAAS
12.20-12.40: MOLA excavations at 50 Fenchurch Street: An initial overview of the archaeology
Jess Bryan and Ben Coleman, MOLA
12.40-1.05: Painting Roman Southwark, the reassembling of the painted Roman wall plasters and graffiti from the Liberty excavation
Han Li, MOLA
1.05-2.00: LUNCH BREAK
Afternoon session: Mudlarking the Thames foreshore
2.00-2.15: Introduction to Secrets of the Thames: Mudlarking London’s Lost Treasures
Jon Cotton, Secretary of Archaeology Committee
2.15-2.50: Wandsworth Historical Society: 60 Years on the Foreshore
Pamela Greenwood, Wandsworth Historical Society
2.50-3.25: In the Flow of Things: Encounters with the Mudlarks of the Thames Foreshore
Tom Chivers, Queen Mary, University of London
3.25-4.00: TEA BREAK
4.00-4.35: Drainspotting: Archaeology in plain site on the Thames foreshore
Claire Harris, MOLA
4.35-5.10: A Badge Too Far? – ‘ritual’ deposition in the medieval Thames
John Clark, Curator Emeritus
5.10: CLOSE
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Past conferences:
The 2023 Conference: Recent Work in Roman towns. Programme
The 2019 Conference: The Thames and its tributaries. Programme
The 2018 Conference: The Bloomberg Site. Programme
The 2017 Conference: The Crossrail Project. Programme
The 2016 Conference: London Bodies: Some Recent Advances. Programme
The 2015 Conference: Recent finds research. Programme
The 2014 Conference: Arenas of entertainment in Tudor and Jacobean London. Programme
The 2013 Conference: 50 Years of London Archaeology – Past, Present and Future. Programme.
The 2012 Conference: Roman Greater London. Programme
The 2011 Conference:The Archaeology of Modern London. Programme
The 2010 Conference: Saxon and Medieval London – Forty Years On. Programme
The 2009 Conference: London icons. Programme
The 2008 Conference: Londinium and Beyond. Programme
The 2007 Conference: The Archaeology of the East End. Programme
The 2006 Conference: Recent work on Roman towns. Programme
The 2005 Conference: the LAMAS 150th Anniversary Great Archaeological Balloon Race: The Final Five. Programme
The 2004 Conference: The Archaeology of the Recent Past. Programme
The 2003 Conference: London before London: prehistory in the Capital
The 2002 Conference: The London Archaeological Archive. Programme
The 2001 Conference: Archaeology in the landscape. Programme
The 2000 Conference: Romans in the suburbs. Programme
The 1999 Conference: the Archaeology of the River Thames. Programme
The 1998 Conference: 25 Years of Digging in the City of London Programme