Roman London cemeteries

The majority of the remains from the Roman period (1st to early 5th centuries CE) excavated from the City and Greater London area represent inhumation and cremation burials from the formal extra-mural cemeteries. Some of these human remains (disarticulated and articulated deposits) were found in intra-mural areas within the Roman settlement and boundary areas.

Data downloads for these populations will be made available online.

In the interim, the eastern cemeteries site report and osteological information are available on the Archaeological Data Service (ADS): The Eastern Cemetery of Roman London: excavations 1983–1990 by Bruno Barber, David Bowsher (2009).

Information and data may also be found in site reports published by AOC Archaeology Group, Museum of London Archaeology (MoLA), Pre-Construct Archaeology (PCA) and other archaeological contractors. These will be listed on their individual websites.

Smaller sites are published in the Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society (LAMAS), which can be accessed via the LAMAS website.