The eastern cemetery of Roman London: excavations 1983-1990

Archaeological excavations conducted between 1983 and 1990 at different sites within an area covering about 12ha in the modern London Borough of Tower Hamlets, to the east of the City of London, produced evidence for a large Roman cemetery. This cemetery was one of several serving Roman London, and lay immediately to the east of the town. During these excavations 136 cremation burials and 550 inhumation burials were recorded, together with a further 165 features identified as disturbed burials, but without surviving human remains. They were reasonably well dated from the 1st to the 5th century AD, although 3rd- to 4th-century burials were particularly well represented.