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In the classic opening shot of Hitchcock’s film “Frenzy” the body of the Necktie Murderer’s latest victim is washed up in the Thames outside City Hall. Ever since London was first settled back in the Iron and Bronze Ages, corpses have ended up in the river, by accident or by design.
Over time the Thames has yielded up a rich archeological treasure of human remains, many of which are prehistoric and thought to have been deliberate riverine burials. In this talk Jane Sidell will take a light-hearted look, backed up by respectful science, at discoveries of human relics in, and beside, the Thames. These include a Mesolithic skull at Tilbury, the Battersea Shield, the Roman Walbrook skulls and a post-medieval ‘pirate’ in Bermondsey. Trigger warning: there will be many images of human remains shown during the talk.
JANE
SIDELL
Jane Sidell is the Inspector of Ancient Monuments for Historic England formerly English Heritage, a post first held by Augustus Pitt Rivers in the 19th Century.
Ticket | Event time | Cost |
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Death on the Thames - London's Human Flotsam and Jetsam
LMOD Ticket
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15:30 - 17:00 | £12.00 |
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