Christ Church, Spitalfields: investigations of the burial crypt 1984-1986

The crypt of Christ Church with All Saints, Spitalfields, East London, was the first post-medieval burial vault to have been comprehensively investigated by archaeological methods. Excavated between October 1984 and April 1986, the crypt provided the opportunity to examine the process of burial between 1729 and 1853 - with particular focus upon the types of coffins, furnishings and clothing involved. No excavations of this type had been previously undertaken and a custom excavation and recording methodology was devised based on the single-context system. This incorporated design taxonomies for the funeral furniture. The post-excavation analyses were completed in 1993, and in the same year two Council for British Archaeology (CBA) reports were published detailing the findings of the excavation. In 1996 a further CBA publication was released. These publications are available for download in HTML and PDF formats. A number of databases, including the burials and marriages registers, are available as comma-delimited files. There are over 100 photographs and line drawings resulting from the excavations.

位于东伦敦斯皮塔菲尔兹的基督教堂暨全圣教堂（Christ Church with All Saints）地窖，是后中世纪时期首个采用考古学方法开展全面发掘的墓葬墓室。该地窖的发掘工作于1984年10月至1986年4月间进行，为研究1729年至1853年间的墓葬流程提供了重要契机，研究重点聚焦于彼时所用棺椁、随葬陈设与殓服的类型。此前尚无同类型的考古发掘实践，研究团队基于单遗存记录体系（single-context system）定制了专属的发掘与记录方法论，该体系纳入了丧葬陈设的分类学设计框架。发掘后分析工作于1993年完成，同年两份英国考古委员会（Council for British Archaeology, CBA）报告正式出版，详细披露了本次发掘的全部成果；1996年，又一份英国考古委员会相关出版物正式发布。上述出版物均提供HTML与PDF两种格式的下载版本。本次发掘衍生的多类数据库（含墓葬与婚姻登记册）均以逗号分隔值（comma-delimited）文件格式对外提供。本次发掘共产出超过100张实拍照片与专业线描图。