ROMANS IN LONDON

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 96, 17 January 1933, Page 13

ROMANS IN LONDON

Remains of Market Place TRADE STILL GOES ON (Reuter.— Special to “The Dominion.”) More traces of the great marketplace of Roman London have beep found iu Lime Street in the City of London. For 1700 years these remains have been buried, yet trade still goes on in the same spot, for Leadenhall Market is built over it. ■Workmen digging for the foundations of a new building immediately behind Leadenhall Market have found part of a wall which js believed to have belonged to the great Roman building, and also a small portion of the floor. It is about twenty feet below the present street level, aiid well in line with the other fragments of the basilica discovered in ISBI. The original floor of red tiles appears to have been covered with a very hard stucco, dirty green in colour, and streaked with white.

About twelve feet of the Roman wail ciln be seen, and (luring the excavating considerable quantities of the ordinary blackish-grey domestic pottery of the period have been found. There are several vases still unbroken, ami these have now been removed to the Guildhall Museum. Experts from the Guildhall are carefully watching the site and collecting every fragment of pottery as it is turned up by the workmen.