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    • Excavation at Billingsgate Market (BIG82) 1982
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    • The Milk Street Jewish Ritual Bath
  • Elysium RIPOur fallen friends
‘Welcome to the house of fun’

Ian Blair

The dynamics of any archaeological excavation is largely driven by the personalities of the individuals who participated.

The Milk Street Jewish Ritual Bath or mikveh: the most culturally significant structure found on an archaeological excavation in the City of London

Ian Blair

‘Does an angel contemplate my fate, and do they know, the places where we go, when we're grey and old’: the young archaeologists of Paternoster Square

Ian Blair

'The Fallen: rediscovering a lost generation'

Ian Blair

‘I keep saying another metre and that will be it, but I said that 2m ago’: 
Sunflowers and Polyspans

Ian Blair

Calverts Buildings, 15–23 Southwark Street, SE1 (15SKS80)

‘Never trust a man with a balloon’: the aerial photography of the Guildhall amphitheatre

Ian Blair

‘The Two Sues: MOLA Managing Editors par excellence’:
Unsung heroes of London archaeology No. 173

Ian Blair

Early on-site assessment of archaeological competency

Ian Blair

In memory of Gina Porter 1957-2021

Ian Blair

Remembering Eric Norton

Ian Blair

1st July 2021

‘Please Sir, can I have some more?’

Ian Blair

  1. Remembering Bill McCann
  2. The assault on St Paul’s Cathedral: or how to gain entry after midnight
  3. Unsolved archaeological mysteries No. 42: ‘Could I have worked at Sutton Hoo in 1939, but have no recollection of it?’
  4. Unsolved archaeological mysteries No. 311

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