1. Kidd D, 1977 Charles Roach Smith and his Museum of London Antiquities. In:Collectors & Collections, the British Museum Yearbook 2, (pp.105–135). British Museum Publications Limited, London, United Kingdom.
2. Kidd 1977: 108. Smith, C. R.Annotated printed catalogue, with manuscript additions, (two volumes), Department of Prehistory and Europe archives, British Museum (unpublished).
3. Following this entry is a hand-written note: ‘H.8 W.11¼. L. of helmet + chain 2ft 2. comp.(compare)exp.(example)helmets arch. (archaeological)society journal No.98’. This note is likely to post date the 1856 acquisition as ‘No.98’ corresponds to the number designated to a kettle-hat included in the exhibition ‘Ancient Helmets and Examples of Mail’ held at The Royal Archaeological Institute in 1880 de Cosson, C. A. and Burges, W., 1881Ancient Helmets and Examples of Mail — A Catalogue of the Objects. The Royal Archaeological Institute, London, Fig. 98.
4. Cherry B, Pevsner N, 1983The Buildings of England: London 2: South. Penguin Books, UK, 73–74, 603. An area of ‘slum housing’ was demolished and the area cleared in order to facilitate construction of the Southwark terminus (London Bridge Station).
5. Cherry and Pevsner 1983: 557. London Bridge remained the only bridge across the Thames until the mid-18th century.