The Hope playhouse, animal baiting and later industrial activity at Bear Gardens on Bankside: excavations at Riverside House and New Globe Walk, Southwark, 1999–2000 The work reported on here

The work reported on here represents the most extensive excavation and post-excavation analysis of an early post-medieval naval victualling establishment in this country and will be of especial interest to archaeologists and naval historians

A substantial part of the ground plan of the yard was recorded and combined with documentary evidence to identify slaughterhouses and yards

structural and scientific studies (including tree-ring dating

Helen Howard

MOLA Monograph Series 71

The Hope playhouse, animal baiting and later industrial activity at Bear Gardens on Bankside: excavations at Riverside House and New Globe Walk, Southwark, 1999–2000 The work reported on here2013 Anthony Mackinder, with Lyn Blackmore, Julian Bowsher, Christopher Phillpotts Southwarks famous Bankside was long known as an entertainment area up to the 17th century. This volume provides evidence for the Barge, one of the medieval stewhouses (tavern brothel) and the later Hope, a dual purpose building hosting animal baiting as well as play performances. The next phase in Banksides history was industrial and its glass and pottery products of