Welcome to the website of the City of London Archaeological Trust.

The City of London Archaeological Trust (CoLAT for short) was formed on 25 July 1974. The Trust is registered with the Charity Commission (number 268160) as a charity whose purpose is to support and initiate archaeological work in the City of London and its environs.

The Trust supports all kinds of archaeological work and the exhibition of archaeological sites. It prefers to concentrate on educational or research activities, within or in addition to existing research frameworks; but assistance with survey and excavation projects may be requested. For details of how to apply for a grant for archaeological work in the City of London and its environs, go to the Guidelines Page. To see the grants given in the last few years go to the Grants given Page.

Please note that the Trust gives out grants only once a year, normally in December. The next deadline for applications will be Friday 27 September 2013 and the meeting to decide grants will be in December 2013.

Please note: the criteria for our grant-giving (the sort of project we will fund, particularly its geographic location) are changing. We will post new Guidelines here by the end of June 2013 (not end of May as in some previous announcements) for the 2013 round of applications, giving applicants three months to make their applications this year. You can download the present Guidelines from the Guidelines Page, but be aware that the wording of the first paragraph in those Guidelines will change. You should wait to see the new Guidelines before making an application.

The Trust is administered by a Management Committee which is comprised of four nominees of the Court of Common Council of the City of London, representatives of the Society of Antiquaries, UCL Institute of Archaeology and the Council for British Archaeology, and other invited academics, along with the Director of the Museum of London and the Managing Director of Museum of London Archaeology. For details of this committee, go to the Committee Page. Here you will also find the most recent Accounts and the Trustees and Auditors' Reports.

For details of how you can support the work of the City of London Archaeological Trust, please go to the Support Page. Here you will also find how to contact the Trust. We also now have a page (Click here) which summarises several large research and publication projects which need substantial funding. We hope that charities, companies, institutions and individuals may want to contribute to the archaeological and historical study of London by helping to produce these important publications for wide public enjoyment.

From September 2012, we are placing texts and pieces of archive information, including specialist reports, for the London Waterfront Tenements project here, to encourage access to the large amount of archive information on strata and finds from four important excavations of 1974-82. This archive information can be inspected and used. Go to the London Waterfront Tenements project page.

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CoLAT announces, with gratitude, that it has received a substantial bequest from the will of Miss Rosemary Green, who died in March 2012. This will enable CoLAT to continue and possibly expand its vital work in support of London archaeology. Further details about Miss Green and what CoLAT intends to do with the bequest will be posted here in due course.

For information about archaeology in the London area and in Britain generally, and to find other sources of funding for archaeological work in London, go to the Links page.

The Trust has a page which contains some of the recent products of its grant aid. These are usually published archaeological reports, in Adobe PDF format. We hope to develop this into a library of work on London's archaeology which has been produced with the help of the Trust. For these products, go to the CoLAT Library.