Visit The City Wall at Vine Street for a fascinating journey through 2,000 years of London history.
This historic site in the heart of the modern City of London is now home to a unique gallery space housing an exhibition of archaeological objects recovered on the site, with a unique section of City Wall including the foundations of an original Roman bastion. The original Roman wall was once more than 3km long and an important defensive fortification for Londinium, the capital of Roman Britain. As the city expanded, this section of the wall was absorbed into workshops, homes and warehouses which were built on the site. Then in 1979, it was uncovered by a team of archaeologists, together with a previously unknown Roman bastion. This section of wall and the foundations of the bastion have been carefully preserved and made available for the public to view along with many historic objects which were also unearthed on the site by the archaeologists.
