Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.

Italics are represented thus _italic_ and bold thus =bold=.

The variables in the formulae concerning canals in Book III, Chapter IV are italicised in the original. The coding has been omitted for the sake of clarity.

Footnotes are located at the ends of chapters.

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EARLY
LONDON

PREHISTORIC, ROMAN, SAXON
AND NORMAN

BY

SIR WALTER BESANT

[Publisher's Device]

LONDON
ADAM & CHARLES BLACK
1908

CONTENTS

BOOK I

PREHISTORIC LONDON

CHAP. PAGE

1. THE GEOLOGY 3

2. THE SITE 17

3. THE EARLIEST INHABITANTS 33

BOOK II

ROMAN LONDON

1. THE COMING OF THE ROMANS 53

2. THE ROMAN RULE 57

3. THE ASPECT OF THE CITY 79

4. REMAINS OF ROMAN LONDON 95

5. THE BUILDING OF THE WALL 112

6. LONDON BRIDGE 128

7. LONDON STONE 133

8. THE DESOLATION OF THE CITY 135

BOOK III

SAXON LONDON

1. THE COMING OF THE SAXONS 153

2. EARLY HISTORY 161

3. THE DANES IN LONDON 169

4. THE SECOND SAXON OCCUPATION 176

5. THE SECOND DANISH OCCUPATION 190

6. TOWN AND PEOPLE 196

7. THORNEY ISLAND 231

8. SAXON REMAINS 243