Excavations at Medieval Cripplegate, London: Archaeology after the Blitz, 1946-68

The Cripplegate area of London was the site of a Roman fort and later of medieval structures and artefacts.

Excavations between 1946 and 1968 by Professor W F Grimes for the Roman and Medieval London Excavation Council were carried out on 25 bomb-damaged sites, and were preliminarily reported by him in 1968.

As part of a major post-excavation programme funded by English Heritage from 1992 to 1997, the archived material from these excavations are being fully published in a series of five volumes, of which this book is one.

This report analyses the material afresh and re-appraises Grimes' work.

It discusses the post-Roman structures and artefacts of the medieval defences, secular buildings (including evidence of Saxon London), parish churches, and a medieval hospital.

Finally, these structures are put into a more contextual framework in a discussion of the dating and development of the street pattern of medieval Cripplegate.