Roman building at Cannon Street
Londonist, our Picture source, have a good post on this. They write: "Underneath Cannon Street station is an enormous building that dates to around the late first or early second century AD. It was...
1 memorial
Roman Camp - N7
There is little evidence to support the existence of this camp. So, rather cheekily, we've categorised it as "Fictional".
1 memorial
Roman girl
Buried "just outside an early boundary ditch marking the edge of the Roman city" sometime 350-400 AD, dug up in 1995 after the Baltic Exchange bomb and reburied, with ceremony, in 2007. No picture...
1 memorial
Roman invasion
The first Roman invasions of Britain took place in 55-54 BCE - Julius Caesar had two attempts. The Roman conquest was only completed in 43 BCE by Emperor Claudius.
1 memorial
Roman pavement - St Matthews
This section of Roman pavement was found at St Matthews, Friday Street, possibly in 1886 when that church was demolished, but we can discover no more about it.
1 memorial
Roman road
There are 7 "Roman Road"s in the London A-Z, plus various "Roman Way"s, etc. And many more current roads are on routes originally created by the Romans. 2020: Diamond Geezer reported on the Bow Ro...
3 memorials
Roman warehouse
The picture source says "Near the Courage Brewery Site archaeologists found the complete wooden floor of a riverside warehouse. Nothing like this has been found anywhere else. The basement would ha...
1 memorial
Roman wharf - Fish Street Hill
A piling from the Roman river wall found in Fish Street Hill in 1931 is thought to date from AD 75 and to have been destroyed in the AD 120 fire that destroyed Roman London. That's the second Grea...
1 memorial
Sir Montagu Sharpe, KBE, KC, DL
Politician, lawyer, ornithologist and amateur archaeologist. Magistrate and Chairman of the Middlesex County Council. Born Paddington. Knighted in 1922 and became a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Middle...
Person, Benefactor, History, Law, Politics & Administration, Romans
4 memorials
1 memorial
2 more subjects