The Royal Navy victualling yard, East Smithfield, London and its contacts with Kent

and its contacts with Kent

The largest-ever excavation of a naval dockyard revealed storehouses

paint analysis and environmental monitoring) afford new understanding of both the original works and later repairs

The excavated burials (647) are the largest sample from a Cistercian site in Europe and provide evidence for burial customs

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 and its contacts with Kent2010 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,