Every day on my way to work I’m lucky enough to pass the Olympic Park construction site. My train nudges past the future VeloPark before swinging round the Olympic Village and into Stratford. If I squint, I can see the bowl of the Olympic Stadium reaching into the sky.

Each morning brings a new visual development and it’s genuinely exciting to be able to keep daily tabs on London’s changing skyline from the safety and warmth of a train compartment.

But what these fleeting windows of opportunity don’t offer is information on what’s going on underneath the Olympic Park site. And that was the reasoning behind attending the recent London 2012 Archaeology Programme evening at Stratford Circus. continue reading this article