Romans Timeline – Guildhall Library

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Roman London Discoveries from the Great Fire to the 19th century

1863-64

L eadenhall Street (under the portico of the late East India House): remains of mosaics and of the painted walls of an apartment in a Roman House, now in the British Museum

1880

Leadenhall Street: Roman basilica and medieval Leadenhall

1876

Camomile Street: excavation of the Roman interval tower

1872-73

1869

National Safe Deposit Company building, west of Mansion House: artefacts from the ancient Walbrook Valley

ucklerbury: Roman B pavement. This mosaic went to the Guildhall Museum and is now on display at the Museum of London

1858

F enchurch Street (opposite of Cullum street): eleven feet six inches remains of a narrow tessellated pavement preserved in the British Museum

1854

ld Broad Street (Yard of O the Excise Office): large remains of a fine square tessellated pavement.

1852

Cannon street: pavement

1847-48

ew Coal Exchange, N Lower Thames Street: remains of hypocaust and Roman house

1841

1840-41

1840

Between the Yard of the Excise office and Bishopsgate Street: remains of a small circular pavement

Threadneedle Street (site of the French Protestant Church): two tessellated pavements. Pavements preserved in the British museum

1836

1805

rosby Square Bishopsgate C Street: part of a pavement five feet wide and apparently forty feet long

L othbury: large and fine tessellated pavement preserved in the British Museum

1792

1787 1785-86

Lombard Street and Birchin Lane: pavements, walls pottery and numerous Roman antiquities

1707

Camomille Street: a large pavement and diverse Roman antiquities

Royal Exchange: Roman wall, painted pedestal, numerous antiquities, initially at the Guildhall Museum, now at the Museum of London

1681

Near Northumberland Alley in Crutched Friars: fragment of a tessellated pavement, presented by the Directors of the East India Company to the Society of Antiquaries, June 10th 1788

annon street: a large C pavement of Roman mosaic work

1681

1803

L eadenhall Street (opposite the eastern columns of the porico of the East India House): Large and fine tessellated pavement. The centre preserved at the India Museum

P oulett House, Great Winchester Street, Old Board Street (behind the old Navy Pay Office): circular pavement, coins, burned corn, and charcoal

Holborn (near St Andrews’ Church): a piece of mosaic work inlaid with black, red and white stones, in squares and some regular figures

1671-1673

St Mary Le Bow: Roman walls, pavement and road (overseen by Christopher Wren)


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