Author: David Plunkett
“Last summer digging through 3.5m of riverside mud at Greenwich in London, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a huge timber watermill of the 12th century. The wheel, part of which survived, would have been more than 5m across.”
The Mill was found while a contractor was preparing the ground for a new residential development at Greenwich Wharf. Monitored by archaeologists from the Museum of London, with the power to intervene and to investigate. There was soon a team of eight people on site and excavation took about 12 weeks in the summer of 2008, of what turned out to be an early medieval tide mill.
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