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or "Square Mile" — worked with specialists from a team at the Museum of London Archaeology to reveal extensive masonry that once formed part of a basilica beside the forum of the Roman ...
The basilica was part of Roman London's wider Forum – the big open-air centre of day-to-day life, similar to modern day Trafalgar Square. The Forum was at the heart of Roman London and is ...
The forum is thought to have been built from ... and there are plans to make the site accessible to the public. “The Roman Basilica will be incorporated as a world-class public experience ...
Built around 80 AD, a few decades after the Romans invaded Britain, the ancient basilica was part of a wider forum and served as a town hall for Londinium, the city's ancient Roman name.
The basilica was part of the forum, the social, political and commercial heart of Roman London, or Londinium, as it was called, where people went to shop, mingle, seek justice and hear the latest ...
The basilica was part of London’s Roman forum, or public square, and was “effectively the first town hall,” said Sophie Jackson, a director at the Museum of London Archaeology. The ...
Archaeologists already knew where the ancient Roman basilica, the first of two to stand ... About A.D. 100, work began to create a much larger forum around the site of the first — and about ...