Depends what you mean by London. City of London or Greater London? Lot of find spots all over Greater London and a trip to the brilliant but "No photography" London Museum will reveal much. So many flint tools and deliberately bent Iron Age swords and skulls found in the Thames, especially near Battersea, that it has been suggested that the Thames was an Iron Age sacred (that word again) river - a British Ganges. Don't believe the myth that there was nothing there before the Romans.

I grew up near Stoke Newington common unaware that a very significant Palaeolithic site was beneath my feet. The Hackney Brook is underground there too - but no one would ever know.

Megalithic London? Its there, but hidden and largely un-photographable.

Hi, Tuesday,

>oh man, don't get me started on that stuff - I've been obsessed with London's lost waterworks for the last few years and it's not really a megalithic subject (it's pre-megalithic in fact) - but I think what you refer to is possibly a spring or tributary. The Fleet is a little further east and is still there deep underground - I visited it a couple of years ago. You can't get rid of a river.<

I don't know if you have read it, but as a keen Londonphile myself, I was very interested to read "Underground London" by Stephen Smith (Hardback ISBN 0316861340). He reflects on the liminal, and has a chapter devoted to London's "lost" waters......

Peace

Pilgrim

>The Fleet is a little further east and is still there deep underground - I visited it a couple of years ago. You can't get rid of a river.<

Thanks Tuesday. Tried to Google a map yesterday for the course of the Fleet - couldn't find one but was amazed to see how many springs were associated with the river.