The Royal Navy victualling yard, East Smithfield, London The largest-ever excavation of a

The largest-ever excavation of a naval dockyard revealed storehouses

with Lyn Blackmore

cemetery and related buildings

and its contacts with Kent

notably the 17th-century diarists Samuel Pepys (of the Navy Board) and John Evelyn (whose home was Sayes Court)

The Royal Navy victualling yard, East Smithfield, London The largest-ever excavation of a2010 Ian Grainger, Christopher Phillpotts Londons Royal Navy victualling yard, the first large scale naval food supply base in Britain, was founded in 1560 and closed in 1785, having proved inadequate for the needs of the expanding Georgian navy. A substantial part of the ground plan of the yard was recorded and combined with documentary evidence to identify slaughterhouses and yards, salt houses and pickling sheds, bakeries, coopers workshops,