Gallions Reach Urban Village, Central Way, Western Way, SE18 TQ 4535 8015 MoLAS (D Saxby) evaluation Feb 1997 Thamesmead Town GAC97
In two of 54 trial holes evidence of prehistoric activity was represented by struck flints, fire-cracked flint, animal bone and charcoal found on the surface of the natural sandy clay. They were sealed by the Tilbury III peat deposit dating to the Late Mesolithic - Early Neolithic period. In the other trial holes the Tilbury III peat deposit was overlaid by a sterile clay above which lay the Tilbury IV peat deposit, dating to the Late Bronze Age. At the W end of the site a river channel was located: it was filled with layered silt and peat and probably dates to the Bronze Age or Iron Age.
Gallions Reach Urban Village (Phase 2), Central Way, SE18 TQ 450 800 MoLAS (S Stevens) evaluation Sept 1997 Thamesmead Town GAE97
A record of the prehistoric topography was made and peat and wood samples taken. The evaluation suggested an area of dry higher ground within an area typical of a lower lying, wet marsh environment which was traversed by substantial tidal channels.
DLR Lewisham Extension, Cutty Sark Station, Creek Road, SE10 TQ 3823 7774 MoLAS (M McKenzie) excavation Apr 1997 Mowlem Civil Engineering DXL97
Natural gravels and alluvial deposits in the S trench were cut by a cess or refuse pit of 12th-13th-c date. In another trench a N-S channel, cut into the alluvium, may have been part of an attempt to drain the area, possibly at a time when there was a growing demand for new development as medieval Greenwich expanded westwards. The channel could only be broadly dated by reference to one 15th - late 18th-c peg tile. Dumped material then raised the ground level across the whole site; Above it lay a garden-type soil which was succeeded by the cellars and cesspits of late 18th-early 19th-c tenement buildings. They appear to have been backfilled at the end of the 19th c.
Deptford Creek, SE10 TQ 3770 7730 MoLAS (B Sloane) Archaeological Foreshore Survey May 1997 London Borough of Lewisham FLS02
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Guildford Grove, SE10 TQ 3790 7685 MoLAS (J Bowsher) evaluation Nov 1997 Buxton Homes GUL97
Topsoil over natural gravels was cut by 19th-c features, including a brick-lined cesspit, a soakaway and domestic pits.
Creedy's Yard, High Bridge Wharf, High Bridge, SE10 TQ 3876 7810 MoLAS (J Bowsher) evaluation Jan 1997 Berkeley Homes (Kent) Ltd HBW97
Natural sand was cut by stakeholes and two pits, all containing 12-13th-c pottery. These were sealed by ploughsoils and subsoils above which was constructed a substantial stone building of late medieval or early Tudor date. An associated plaster floor was sealed by demolition debris that included medieval brick, glazed floor tiles and stained window glass which indicate a building of high status. A sealing layer of 17th-c date was superseded by structural remains of the 18th c and 19th c.
Neptune Court, National Maritime Museum, Park Row, SE10 TQ 3860 7766 MoLAS (J Bowsher) watching brief Apr-May 1997 NPH96
Following an evaluation (LA8 supp. 2 (1997) 42) a watching brief took place in 1997. Subsoil over the natural gravels was sealed by a topsoil which contained material dating to the 18th and 19th c and must represent the governor of Greenwich Hospital’s garden. Above were the remains of 19th-c walls which were directly sealed by the concrete surface that seems to be the original floor of Neptune Hall (b. 1873).