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 Tower Hill

The tallest piece of Roman London still standing, with a Roman emperor looking at it.

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The wall at Tower Hill, with the Tower beyond it.

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Ten metres of wall, the lower four and a half Roman, the rest medieval heightening, and you can read the join in the stone. The Roman work is squared ragstone in courses with bands of red tile every few feet, which is what the whole three kilometres looked like around AD 200. The bronze Trajan beside it is a twentieth-century copy of a statue from Italy; the tombstone set into the wall is a cast of that of Julius Classicianus, the procurator who reined in the reprisals after Boudica's revolt, found in a bastion here in pieces in 1852 and 1935. The original is in the British Museum.

Where
Tower Hill Gardens, Trinity Place, EC3N 4DJ
Nearest station
Tower Hill · 1 min walk

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