LAMAS 61th 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 

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

Enquiries regarding the programme or bookstalls should be addressed to Jon Cotton on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

 


 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