Pop-up museum to reveal artefacts found during major archaeological dig spanning centuries of London's past

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Limited availability tickets are available for pop-up museum tours at the site this Friday and Saturday (July 17-18 2015). Book online. Visit 100minories.lparchaeology.com and follow the project on Twitter @100Minories and on Facebook.

Archaeologists have excavated remains up to eight metres deep at 100 Minories, a site on the fringe of the City of London and the East End surrounded by a Roman eastern cemetery, medieval monasteries and the Tower of London.Previously home to industrial and maritime activity and high-status Georgian housing, the grounds have revealed a Roman defensive circuit, a vast ditch and medieval and Tudor houses and gardens.Work on a barrel vaulted cellar unearthed this fine bone comb.One of the final finds made within the city ditch was a pair of “beautifully preserved” metal shears.This little figurine was found inside one of the Georgian drains.A Wedgewood lion was found in a silt trap relating to the Georgian Minories buildings, built during the 1760s.This small figurine has a protruding abdomen. A variety of animal bones were also found.These children’s shoes are one of many leather remains to have been recovered.Some of the clay pipes were more than 15cm in stem length.A drainage system with a possible overspill feature was identified among the Georgian buildings.Some of the revetments have rotted away, leaving only metal rivets and ‘ghost’ features where stakes once existed.The excavation of the cellar revealed a series of basements, interlinked with the barrel vaulted cellar. The cellar was backfilled with construction materials.Two post-medieval Rummer drinking glass stems are described by archaeologists as being in beautiful condition. They are decorated with ‘prunts’ – decorative blobs of glass.The Georgian buildings were occupied until the 20th century, bombed during the Second World War and demolished during the 1960s.Knives, leather working tools, pots, leather, and rope were found alongside everyday items in the ditch.A lobster claw and porcelain artefacts were also discovered.More places to see London's archaeology in:Discover what life was like in Londinium and see everyday Roman objects from homeware to precious jewellery in the Roman London gallery and follow the story of London from the collapse of the Roman city in the 400s to the accession of Queen Elizabeth I in 1558 in the Medieval London galleries.Characters and Collections, the museum's current exhibition, tells the story of famous archaeologists as well as those hardly known who helped excavate the objects in Egypt and then lovingly looked after them in London. Until January 25 2016.Thames Highway: AD43 - 1600, the permanent exhibition, allows visitors to interact with archaeologists at a series of multimedia points – introduced by Time Team's Tony Robinson.