Chiz Harward
I am a freelance archaeologist based in Gloucestershire, UK, trading as Urban Archaeology. I carry out a wide range of archaeological projects on urban, ecclesiastical, and occasionally rural sites.
I specialise in the excavation and analysis of the deeply stratified urban sequences commonly found in historic towns, and in monastic and ecclesiastical sites. I am also an archaeological and book illustrator, and have been involved in developing training materials and manuals for several years.
You can read about some of my projects on my blog at http://urban-archaeology.blogspot.com/
Or more frequently on my FB page at https://www.facebook.com/urb.arch
Address: Urban Archaeology,
Stroud,
Gloucestershire
I specialise in the excavation and analysis of the deeply stratified urban sequences commonly found in historic towns, and in monastic and ecclesiastical sites. I am also an archaeological and book illustrator, and have been involved in developing training materials and manuals for several years.
You can read about some of my projects on my blog at http://urban-archaeology.blogspot.com/
Or more frequently on my FB page at https://www.facebook.com/urb.arch
Address: Urban Archaeology,
Stroud,
Gloucestershire
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centuries, reconnecting the archaeological assemblages with documentary evidence in order to describe the place, people and possessions of the early modern suburb of Spitalfields.
Following the closure of the medieval priory of St Mary Spital in the 1530s and the construction of private mansions, the largely residential enclave grew into the suburb of Spitalfields in the 17th century as landowners built clusters of houses in the former fields and developer-builders constructed some of London’s first terraced houses in the 1680s over the former military training ground. Development continued piecemeal in all areas over the next centuries.
Analysis of the artefacts – pottery, glasswares, clay tobacco pipes and other domestic items – and of the botanical and faunal remains discarded in the privies of these houses throws new light on the household economies and leisure activities of, in particular, the Georgian and Victorian residents, a number of whom were involved in the silk industry and who included Huguenot and Jewish families.
A series of essays bring an archaeological perspective to wider historical themes such as the religious life, architecture, sanitation and administration of this flourishing post-medieval suburb.'