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  • Charterhouse Square Black Death cemetery and Carthusian monastery, meat market and suburb by Sam Pfizenmaier [Crossrail Archaeology Series – 7]

  • This volume is expertly produced and very well presented. It reflects MOLA’s aims to bring their commercial work to a wide audience through their publication programme and it effectively tackles the challenge of being accessible to the non-expert and conveying the academic quality at the core of their work. ... This is an archaeological site report for the digital age – a visually engaging, concise and accessible volume tied in to a web-based digital project report archive where the finer detail and raw data can be found. It provides a taster of every aspect of the project, and an effective route through which MOLA’s work can reach a wide audience. Elizabeth Craig-Atkins in Medieval Archaeology 2018
  • Over the last decade and more the Museum of London Archaeology impressive output of volumes has been unequalled in Britain. This volume is of international importance. It is difficult to think of any piece of post-medieval urban archaeology conducted on such a grand scale, and published to such a high professional standard, anywhere on earth.

  • John Allan in Transactions of London and Middlesex Archaeology Society 2016
  • Lundenwic: excavations in Middle Saxon London, 1987–2000 by Robert Cowie and Lyn Blackmore, with Anne Davis, Jackie Keily, Kevin Rielly

  • … the book is a triumph, because all the strands of evidence are woven together, by multiple authors, to produce a proper synthesis in a sure-footed search for meaning. …This is a model work of synthesis that shows how full use of the evidence can enable the construction of a detailed and thoughtful interpretation. Duncan Brown in Medieval Ceramics 2013

Charterhouse Square Black Death cemetery and Carthusian monastery, meat market and suburb by Sam Pfizenmaier [Crossrail Archaeology Series – 7]

This volume is expertly produced and very well presented. It reflects MOLA’s aims to bring their commercial work to a wide audience through their publication programme and it effectively tackles the challenge of being accessible to the non-expert and conveying the academic quality at the core of their work. ... This is an archaeological site report for the digital age – a visually engaging, concise and accessible volume tied in to a web-based digital project report archive where the finer detail and raw data can be found. It provides a taster of every aspect of the project, and an effective route through which MOLA’s work can reach a wide audience. Elizabeth Craig-Atkins in Medieval Archaeology 2018

Over the last decade and more the Museum of London Archaeology impressive output of volumes has been unequalled in Britain. This volume is of international importance. It is difficult to think of any piece of post-medieval urban archaeology conducted on such a grand scale, and published to such a high professional standard, anywhere on earth.

John Allan in Transactions of London and Middlesex Archaeology Society 2016

Lundenwic: excavations in Middle Saxon London, 1987–2000 by Robert Cowie and Lyn Blackmore, with Anne Davis, Jackie Keily, Kevin Rielly

… the book is a triumph, because all the strands of evidence are woven together, by multiple authors, to produce a proper synthesis in a sure-footed search for meaning. …This is a model work of synthesis that shows how full use of the evidence can enable the construction of a detailed and thoughtful interpretation. Duncan Brown in Medieval Ceramics 2013