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Forty Hall 1629 – 1997, by Geoffrey Gillam (currently available in print)

Forty Hall 1629 - 1997, book cover

Forty Hall is one of a group of houses around London built during the first half of the 17th century by self-made City men who wanted a relatively small house which incorporated the best features of grander residences elsewhere with the ideals of comfort and grandeur compressed into a compact plan. In the case of Forty Hall, the house was designed to meet the needs of one man - Nicholas Rainton - and, as one would expect, successive owners have each made changes to suit their own requirements and to incorporate the latest ideas and fashions as they were introduced. This has resulted in many alterations and additions to the house and associated buildings, as well as to the grounds, over a long period of time, making it difficult to disentangle its history. (Gillam 1997, 6)

Copies of the Society publication "Forty Hall 1629 – 1997", by Geoffrey Gillam (Enfield Archaeological Society, first published in 1997) are currently for sale at a price of £6.50 (this includes £1.50 postage and packaging).

To purchase either publication, please send a cheque for the appropriate amount made payable to Enfield Archaeological Society.

Excavations At 102 Leighton Rd., Bush Hill Park, Enfield, March 2001 – June 2002 (Site code: LR102), by Martin J. Dearne and Roger Dormer" (currently available in print)

The excavation of the majority of the rear garden of 102 Leighton Rd. in 2001-2002 identified minor prehistoric activity followed by ?late first century probably agricultural/drainage features. By the Antonine period a timber building lay at the periphery of the site but in the later second century much of it was given over to a long lived cobbled ?yard, subsequently truncated by major drainage features, though one area may have been less formally resurfaced. In the later fourth century a widespread occupation layer suggests rubbish disposal taking place here and the layer preceding drainage feature fills produced notable finds including circumstantial evidence for a building of some pretensions in the general vicinity.

Activity is indicated to the very end of the Roman period, after which the site became farm land until the construction of houses in the early twentieth century. Evidence was also recorded for the use of the garden subsequent to this, including domestic civil defence arrangements of WWII date. (Dearne & Dormer 2007, 1)

Copies of the 102 Leighton Road report can be purchased at a cost of £4.50 (this includes £1.50 postage and packaging.)

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