The royal palace, abbey and town of Westminster on Thorney Island: archaeological excavations (1991–8) for the London Underground Limited Jubilee Line Extension Project structural and scientific studies (including

structural and scientific studies (including tree-ring dating

studying the excavated evidence from the intact and lavishly furnished burial chamber

The defensive ditch was redug in the Late Saxon period and the Roman wall repaired

repaired or stored here

from the disposal of massacre victims to the continuity of a largely imagined pre-Roman ‘cult of the head’

The royal palace, abbey and town of Westminster on Thorney Island: archaeological excavations (1991–8) for the London Underground Limited Jubilee Line Extension Project structural and scientific studies (including2006 Christopher Thomas, Robert Cowie, Jane Sidell The palace and abbey of Westminster has been the pre eminent royal, religious and governmental centre in England since the 11th century home of English monarchs until the reign of Henry VIII and then of the House of Commons. The abbey was a royal church, site of the coronations of all English monarchs since Edward the Confessor and mausoleum for many of Englands royal families. Excavation findings