Crossrail Archaeology: Liverpool Street excavation completes

Описание: Over the past few months, Crossrail's archaeology team has been undertaking a large-scale excavation at Liverpool Street.

There are 2,000 years of history buried beneath the site of Crossrail's Liverpool Street station, including the foundations of Broad Street railway station; the former Bedlam burial ground; Moorfields marsh; a Roman road and the Walbrook, one of London’s lost rivers.

In early March, a team of sixty archaeologists began excavating around 3,000 skeletons from the Bedlam burial ground at Liverpool Street in the City of London.

Our archaeologists have revealed a number of interesting finds including over 2,000 individual artefacts spanning 2,000 years of history and, most recently, a fascinating selection of Roman burials. The excavation is being undertaken by MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) on behalf of Crossrail.

The excavation will allow construction of the east entrance of the new Liverpool Street Crossrail station. A team of 60 archaeologists have been working in shifts, six days a week to excavate the site and carefully record evidence of the finds.

Find out more about our archaeology programme here:
http://www.crossrail.co.uk/

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