Roman London you can still see

Map of 5 locations in London, United Kingdom

Most of what survives of Londinium sits a level or two below the modern street: under an office block on Lower Thames Street, beneath Bloomberg's European headquarters, in a church crypt, in the basement of a student building near the Tower. Each of these places was found by digging for something else, whether a Victorian Coal Exchange, post-war rebuilding or a 1970s redevelopment, and each was kept where it was found. The list ends outside the walls at Orpington, where a farmhouse grew into a villa.

Places in this collection

  • Crofton Roman Villa — Few Roman villas have been found in Greater London. Most are in the south east, part of a line of villas that runs on into Kent, and Crofto…
  • All Hallows by the Tower — In the crypt museum of this church near the Tower of London are pieces of a tessellated floor and a plastered wall from a 2nd-century Roman…
  • London Mithraeum — This temple to Mithras, the god shown slaying a bull, was built in the 3rd century AD and excavated in 1954 during rebuilding after the war…
  • Billingsgate Roman House and Baths — Builders digging foundations for the Victorian Coal Exchange found these remains in 1848. They belong to a large private house from around…
  • City Wall at Vine Street — This section of the wall around Londinium was built between 190 and 230 AD and stood 4 to 6 metres high. Workshops, homes and warehouses bu…

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