ROMAN LONDON
NEW LIGHT ON ITS WALL
Tower Hill Improvement has just finished a series of trial excavations on the north-east side of Tower Hill, which has resulted in a further increase of knowledge of the Roman Town Wall of London.
Under the cellar floor, of No. 20, Mr. F. Cotlrill, of the London Museum, who was in. charge of the excavations, discovered the foundations- and parts of the walls of a Roman tower; built against the back, or inside, of the town wall whose site was already known to lie under the house.
This tower is built, like the wall itself, of Kentish rag and the famous hard white mortar of the Roman, with a triple course of bricks at the original ground level—about five feet below the present one. It is of the same date, as the wall, but it presents an entirely •unknown feature in the ancient defences of the Eoman Londinium.
It may be a guard tower on the wall, unconnected with any other similar I structure, or it may be part of the special defences of a gateway through, the wall. It is reminiscent of the towers found on the town wall of the Roman city of Verulamium, now St. Albans, which was built not long after that of London.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 4
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215ROMAN LONDON Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 4
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