Description

Wessex Archaeology (London) was commissioned by Carden and Godfrey on behalf of the Honourable Artillery Company to carry out an archaeological watching brief on groundwork at the Armoury Room Project, the Honourable Artillery Company, City Road, EC1, in the London Borough of Islington, centred on NGR 532720 182188.
The results of the watching brief reaffirm the development history of the Site, postulated in Wessex Archaeology’s earlier evaluation (Wessex Archaeology, 2004) and the desk-based conservation plan (Wessex Archaeology, 2002) and is broadly similar to the sequence recorded in other archaeological works carried out in the area.
The earliest evidence of human activity on Site comprised three sherds of residual Roman pottery uncovered in later post–medieval contexts.
A series of rectangular quarry pits was uncovered, cut into the underlying brick earth and gravel deposits of the natural geology. Finds from the initial silting up of these features have given a medieval date for their abandonment. These pits were subsequently