Roman London

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.

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The Wall at Cooper's Row

Roman below, medieval above, arrow loops and all, in a hotel courtyard.

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A section that stands almost to its full medieval height: the Roman base with its tile courses, then thirteenth-century masonry with a row of arrow loops and the remains of a wall walk, then a doorway cut through in a later century. It is reached through the courtyard of the hotel on Cooper's Row, which built round it rather than over it, and it is the best place in the City to see how each age simply added to what the last had left.

Where
8-10 Cooper's Row, EC3N 2BQ
Nearest station
Tower Hill · 1 min walk

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