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Not every statue in London. The ones worth crossing the road for: Roman wall, medieval ruins, and the monuments that earn a detour.
A lump of limestone in a wall on Cannon Street, older than any record of it.
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Nobody knows what it is. A block of oolitic limestone, probably Roman and probably a fragment of something much larger, first written down around 1100 as a landmark by which people gave their address. Jack Cade struck it with his sword in 1450 to claim the city, a scene Shakespeare put into Henry VI, and it has been moved, half-buried in the road and set into the wall of a church and then a bank. Since 2018 it sits in a Portland stone housing in the front of the office building at 111 Cannon Street, behind glass, at pavement level, roughly where it started.
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