Post Medieval

In the Tudor and Elizabethan periods (1540-1750) Liverpool was a small market town. From the 1640s onwards merchants started to invest in Liverpool and it started to grow in importance.

In 1715 the world's first commercial wet dock opened in Liverpool, built within a natural tidal inlet known as 'the pool'.

By 1800 Liverpool had grown into one of the most important ports in Britain, and was trading with places all over the world. Goods brought to Liverpool included sugar, tobacco, cotton, timber and corn.

Related finds

Post Medieval remains have been found in Aigburth, Billinge, Bold, Birkdale, Caldy, Cronton, Croxteth, Dovecot, Eccleston, Formby, Gateacre, Gayton, Grange, Greasby, Hooton, Kirkdale, Knotty Ash, Knowsley, Little Crosby, Little Woolton, Liverpool, Lunt, Lydiate, Maghull, Melling, Moreton, Much Woolton, Netherton, Pensby, Poulton-cum-Seacombe, Prenton, Raby, Rainhill, Simonswood, Southport, Sutton, Tuebrook, Upton, Wallasey, West Derby, Whiston, Windle and St Helens