Adams was a member of the excavation team on the notorious 1980s excavations in the crypt at Christchurch, Spitalfields. Lead poisoning, smallpox scares and more than nine hundred 18th-19th century lead-lined coffins may not have been the most glamorous digging job but it yielded the most important collection of aged, dated and pathologically-analysed human remains to date. Adams co-wrote the publication of the results, which was published by the Council for British Archaeology and is available free for download (link on the lower right of the Homepage screen).

The illustration here is Adams’s pen and ink axonometric reconstruction of the crypt (minus 968 bodies).