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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Esther Addley

Three sections of Roman wall in City of London given protected status

Workers record details of the Roman riverside wall in City of London.
The Roman riverside wall has been called ‘slightly eccentric’. Photograph: Mola

Three sections of a huge but little-known Roman wall, discovered under the City of London, have been given protected status as scheduled national monuments.

The riverside wall was a once vast stone structure that formed part of the defences of Roman London. Built in the third century AD along the Thames, it connected to the city’s landward fortifications, large sections of which still exist.

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