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A map with a red star indicating the location of All Hallows Church, Lombard Street - where the set of cuenca seca tiles were found. It is at the intersection of Lombard and Gracechurch Street in the City of London, north of the present-day Monument…

This is a section of the 1520 map of London. The red box indicates where the cemetery is located. To the east of The Tower, above East Smithfield street, and next to St. Mary Graces, is where the cemetery was built. However, in 1520 it was no…

In the late twelfth century, the Archbishop of Canterbury chose a site on the south bank of London, removed from Canterbury, where he intended to found a college of secular clerks. The land Archbishop Baldwin chose is located across from Westminster…

This is a 1520 map upon which I marked, with a red star, Fenchurch Street, since that is where this alembic was excavated.

Here is a map showing Candlewick Street, which is the original name of Cannon Street, and how it would have appeared in the Middle Ages.

This specific medieval chalice was found in London Wall. The chalice dates to the late fifteenth century. The map is of London in 1520, and the red outline marks the London Wall, where the chalice was excavated.

A map marking the location of the Carthusian monastery at Charterhouse in 1520. This provides a visual understanding of how Charterhouse's location tied in perfectly with its mission. Laying just outside of Cripplegate in the open moor fields to the…

This is a full map which illustrates London in 1270. The red circle highlights the area in which the iron anchor, from the Museum of London was excavated, at the River Thames near Blackfriars.

This map was published in 1633. It depicts London during the 1560s. West Cheap was situated in the west of the medieval city, beginning at the Great Conduit at the base of Old Jewry Street and running westward to a smaller conduit northeast of Saint…

This is a 1300 map of London on which I marked, with a red star, the location of the Guildhall, since that is the location in which this stone shield was found.