File:London Wall Walk Panel 2 - Tower Hill, Londinium Roman Wall (38568516790).jpg
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This impressive section of wall still stands to a height of 35 feet (10.6m). The Roman work survives to the level of the sentry walk, 14 1/2 feet (4.4m) high, with medieval stonework above. The Wall was constructed with coursed blocks of ragstone which sandwiched a rubble and mortar core. Layers of flat red tiles were used at intervals to give extra strength and stability. Complete with its battlements the Roman Wall would have been about 20 feet (6.3m) high. Outside the Wall was a defensive ditch. To the north is the site of one of the towers added to the outside of the wall in the 4th century. Stones recovered from its foundations in 1852 and 1935 included part of the memorial inscription from the tomb of Julius Classicianus, the Roman Provincial Procurator (financial administrator) in AD 61. In the medieval period the defences were repaired and heightened. The stonework was more irregular with a sentry walk over 3 feet (0.9m) wide. To the west was the site of the Tower Hill scaffold where many famous prisoners were publicly beheaded, the last in 1747. |
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| Source | London Wall Walk: Panel 2 - Tower Hill, Londinium: Roman Wall |
| Author | Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany |
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