…The work of many different archaeological groups, both avocational and professional, has revealed a … number of fish traps on the Thames foreshore in central and west London. These groups include the … Thames Archaeological Survey, the Richmond Archaeological Society, the Wandsworth Historical … Society, the Thames Discovery Programme and Museum of London Archaeology. Two fish traps have been … dated to the early Saxon period (at Barn Elms and Putney) and four to the mid Saxon period (a second …

…The zone is approximately 600m long and 70m wide. Since the 1940s, houseboats have been permanently … moored on the upper part of the foreshore, connected to land by a series of pontoons. At present the … only safe permanent access from the waterfront to the foreshore is via a set of stairs located on … the Embankment, downstream of Battersea Bridge (over 1km away). Once upstream of the bridge, the … only safe passage to the site is across a narrow area in front of the moored houseboats which means …

…An archive of all FROG Blog entries relating to the Chelsea site. … …