Exhibition offers extensive insight into London's history thrown up by Crossrail

Tunnel, at the the Museum of London Docklands, showcases the archaeological treasures unearthed during the digging of the Crossrail project

From reindeer bones gnawed by wolves at Old Oak Common 68,000 years ago to victims of the Black Death, a vulgar Victorian chamber pot and 13,000 Crosse & Blackwell marmalade and pickle jars - the longest slice of the capital's history ever excavated lies exposed in a new exhibition at the Museum of London.

The Crossrail tunnel, which will hold the 73-mile new Elizabeth line that is due to open in 2018, is the largest engineering project in Europe and it has given archaeologists a unique slit trench across the capital's history. The oldest objects shaped by a Londoner are flakes chipped from a flint axe 8,000 years ago, found in north Woolwich.