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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.
The church at the north end of London Bridge keeps a timber from the Roman waterfront in its tower arch, where the first crossing came ashore.
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The Romans bridged the Thames here in the first century, the medieval bridge stood on the same line and the two since have come ashore just upstream of it; St Magnus stands at the bridgehead, and until 1831 the way onto the old bridge ran through the arch under its tower. Inside that arch is a pile of blackened timber from a Roman wharf of about AD 75, dug up on Fish Street Hill in 1931 - the river's edge was that far inland then - beside stones from the northernmost arch of the medieval bridge. The timber is inside, under the tower, so the church has to be open to see it; the bridge stones are out in the churchyard and are not.
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Photo by Steven G. Johnson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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