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Explore Londinium, established around AD 50. A guide to the ancient city, and listings of things you can still see and visit today. Remnants of the city walls, the amphitheatre only discovered in 1988, and a timber from the waterfront where the first London Bridge came ashore.
A lump of limestone in a wall on Cannon Street, older than any record of it.
Pavements & relicsFree
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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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Photo by Lord Belbury, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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