Archaeology transcript

Simon Wright, Director – Infrastructure and Utilities at the ODA:  I'd like to welcome you here this morning at the launch of our community engagement programme for archaeology.

The important thing for the ODA is to respect and understand our history as we build a future. So planning, planning, planning - the three most important things - give them time to do their work, and then allow them to record, and then we can back-fill and then we can move on.

Kieron Tyler, Senior Archaeologist at the Museum of London: This is a landscape that's always been changing. None of those waterways in the Olympic Park are natural. Human intervention has changed, constrained, rebuilt, redesigned, removed bits, added bits. In fact, the coming of the Olympics is exactly the same process that's been going on in the Olympic Park since pre-history.

Ade Adepitan, Paralympian: I always think it's really important to know your history, and I'm sure, with the whole Roman road issue and all of the artefacts that have already been found. I mean we're sitting next to a 3,000 year-old geezer here, you know, a prehistoric man, and I think all of that is just amazing. It just adds to the rich history and it makes you really feel proud of coming from East London to know that there was a lot of things going on before we were there.

Schoolchildren: We've been doing some digging in the sand-pits. We were trying to look at some bones, pottery, and we saw some mosaics, which proved it was a Roman experience and that. So it was really fun.

There's lots of real Roman pottery which is great, and we were able to see what kind of pots they were, and roof tiles, and stuff like that. It was really great, yeah.