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London Wall

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

Last modified Jan 09, 2025 11:40 AM — History

tags: fortification, ragstone, extant remains

London's original Roman wall in stone was built ca. A.D. 190 to 225. The wall originally had a length of ca. 4 km (2.5 miles and enclosed an area of ca. 134 hectares. It once included four city gates.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/630799745

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
51.5120204372, -0.0824321314377

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of London Wall segment at Tower Hill (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of London Wall (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

None

London Wall makes connections with:

London Wall connection Londinium/Augusta (unspecified date range)

London Wall receives connections from:

None

Place type:
wall (of a city), city wall

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Related:

Wikidata London Wall (Q60308)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The remains of a third century AD defensive all around Roman Londinium.

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'London Wall: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/630799745> [accessed: 26 April 2025]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/630799745 |title=Places: 630799745 (London Wall) |author=Becker, J., T. Elliott |accessdate=April 26, 2025 8:59 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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