Roman Town Below London

Evening Star, Issue 25776, 26 April 1946, Page 10

Roman Town Below London

LONDON, April 11. There are not many reasons why London should be grateful to the Luftwaffe.,. Nevertheless, it is a fact that German air raids have led to the discovery of most interesting antiquarian relics in the metropolis. Investigations on a bombed site near Fenchurch street, in the city, have led to the finding of traces of Roman remains. Apparently a Roman town has lain for all these centuries beneath the existing London, and the Fenchurch street site is judged to have been near a forum and market place. Part of a

THE LUFTWAFFE REVEALED IT (From our Correspondent—By Air Mail.)

Roman wall and fragments of Roman pottery have already been unearthed. This: is only one of several instances where the deep seams blown by enemy bombs in the city area have churned up souvenirs of Roman habitation. Archaeologists . are keeping an alert watch on all excavation work on bombed sites, and the British Museum is being considerably enriched in consequence. It is a grim irony by which twentieth-century air war is bringing to light the forgotten remains of B.C. Roman England. Atomic bombing might take us still further back into the unsuspected past!