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).
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
Dec 21, 2024 04:20 PM
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History
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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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/630799745
51.5099294, -0.07602095
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of London Wall segment at Tower Hill (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- London Wall connection Londinium/Augusta (unspecified date range)
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wall (of a city), city wall
Pleiades
The remains of a third century AD defensive all around Roman Londinium.
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'London Wall: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/630799745> [accessed: 26 December 2024]
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