Resumen de Saynes Mill: excavation of a tide mill on the River Lea, London
Robin Wroe-Brown, Ian Betts, Lyn Blackmore, D. M. Goodburn, Bob Spain, Geoff Egan, Jackie Keily, Jacqui Pearce
Excavations at 150 Stratford High Street, London E15, found evidence for Saynes Mill, a tide powered grain mill of medieval origin, converted in 1745–62 into a pumping station for the West Ham Water Company with an engine installed by John Smeaton. The large-scale reconstruction meant that there was limited survival of earlier buildings, but many later structures survived almost intact and stretches of the quays that flanked the Waterworks River were also recorded. The excavated remains of both the buildings and revetments spanned the period from the late 15th to the late 19th centuries.
