Comments on: Seventeenth Century Finds From Shoreditch https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/04/seventeenth-century-finds-from-shoreditch/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:55:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: mary moulder https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/04/seventeenth-century-finds-from-shoreditch/#comment-525268 Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:55:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=119552#comment-525268 Hi,
I haven’t seen your emails since early September. I hope you are feeling well. Your work is greatly appreciated. Mary Moulder, your devoted reader

]]> By: Russell Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/04/seventeenth-century-finds-from-shoreditch/#comment-503040 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:19:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=119552#comment-503040 I am about to manage a large development on the site of the old Priory Abbey of St.John the Baptist on Holywell Lane and have been researching this area extensively. We will be undergoing a 12 week Archaeology period and we expect to discover the footprint walls of the Abbey, an old Gatehouse and many bodies.

]]> By: Karen Harvey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/04/seventeenth-century-finds-from-shoreditch/#comment-486091 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 11:37:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=119552#comment-486091 I have Hugeunot ancestors who lived in Holywell Lane for some time. They were buried at St. Leonard’s Shoreditch. So I would be very interested to know where the recent archaeological finds will be stored and whether they will be on display anywhere in the future?

]]> By: Gary Arber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/04/seventeenth-century-finds-from-shoreditch/#comment-484728 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 20:38:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=119552#comment-484728 It is interesting to note that some pottery was made in Harlow.
Clay flower pots were made in nearby Waltham Abbey by two companies until recent times.
The local clay must have been the reason.
Gary

]]> By: Donald Parsnips https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/04/seventeenth-century-finds-from-shoreditch/#comment-484699 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 20:16:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=119552#comment-484699 Surely the nearby ‘box-park’ was established for the sale of such ‘money-boxes’ ?

]]> By: Pauline Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/04/seventeenth-century-finds-from-shoreditch/#comment-484120 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 13:43:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=119552#comment-484120 Finds like this always make one wonder who owned them and what their lives were like, thanks for letting us see them they are fascinating.

Here, in Colchester where I live, archaeologists are excavating under a proposed new extension to a department store, and it was reported yesterday that they have discovered a wealthy Roman lady’s collection of jewellery probably buried for safe keeping before the city was destroyed by Boadicea’s army. It consisted of two gold armlets, a silver chain necklace, two silver bracelets, a silver armlet, and a jewellery box containing two sets of gold earrings and four gold finger rings, also buried was a small bag of coins. This is one of the best finds of jewellery ever discovered in Britain but one can’t help feeling sad because, as it was never retrieved, the owner must have died possibly being one of those who took refuge in the Temple where they were all massacred.

Pauline.

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/04/seventeenth-century-finds-from-shoreditch/#comment-483676 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 09:24:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=119552#comment-483676 The flint is really incongruous but they tend to turn up on all sorts of sites. We are digging a Roman fort nearby and sure enough a flint scraper was found on the site. It demonstrates how active man was in the Neolithic period and even earlier.

Great artefacts – and that is the irony. Without the brutal development now imminent none of these treasures would have seen the light of day.

]]> By: Rosemary Hoffman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/04/seventeenth-century-finds-from-shoreditch/#comment-483437 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 06:56:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=119552#comment-483437 My mother and all her siblings were born in Holywell Lane and my grandfather had a shop at no 65 for a time from 1910 to about 1922

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/04/seventeenth-century-finds-from-shoreditch/#comment-483405 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 06:27:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=119552#comment-483405 Some remarkable designs from the pre industrial era!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/04/seventeenth-century-finds-from-shoreditch/#comment-483348 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 05:41:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=119552#comment-483348 Great finds! I love seeing those artefacts rescued from the earth. I used to teach at a school in Frechen. Valerie

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