Some underground history in London!

[@livinglondonhistory]

I have recently released a book of London’s quirks and oddities! 👉 livinglondonhistory.com/my-book/

[@Surv1ve_Thrive]

As another commentor posted, those terracota tiles are fairly waterproof, so the layers are to stop water rising within the walls. Damp proof layers. Or possibly to wick water away.

[@serinadelmar6012]

Fantastic, I know just a person to buy this for! wishing you every success.

[@1ChxnceLxnce]

What street is this

[@onyxcrusader9536]

opposite this door there is a much more exposed section next to the Barbie Green

[@1ChxnceLxnce]

@@onyxcrusader9536 what street is this?

[@voora4290]

Bro found a real life Easter egg😂

[@cannotfigureoutaname]

Comment of the year

[@Oscar4u69]

🤯🤯
never saw it that way 🤯

[@fyre2377]

🤓🤓

[@silver47official]

Bro! Bro! Fuckin bro! Aaaarrrgghh!!!

[@Allen-R]

Bet there's a korok in there or something

[@naningwidyawati8028]

Imagine going on a field trip to a car park💀💀

[@aliabdallah102]

Typical British activity

[@carmenmonoxide7459]

😂

[@j22563]

At least it doesn't rain down there

[@PianoKwanMan]

Like Richard III old grave

[@TheEnglish-Saxon]

I can confirm, back in the early 90s when I was a wee lad. My school did take us on a London trip and we stopped off to see this wall... highlight of the day, trust me!! 😂

[@DerptekofGoochland]

Cool to see the devs acknowledge their previous work with Easter eggs like this. Reminds me of some of the secrets you find in old GTA games.

[@User_yhvz]

Still waiting to get inside that damn mountain bunker.
Man those youtubers deserve hell….had all of us waste days I guarantee it.

[@Jesus_Christ_loves_you_alot]

Hey there. Jesus loves you! Through Him is the only way to heaven! May God bless you. 😊

[@shadowsoulless6227]

​@@Jesus_Christ_loves_you_alot you're going to hell

[@NotHereForLikes]

The devs? Bro you need to get off the internet and go outside.

[@ElusiveTy]

​@@NotHereForLikesActing like it's 2005 and gaming isn't widespread? You need to realise you're now considered the weirdo. Get with the times or keep your ill attempts to insult people to yourself.

[@cucaulwell2351]

"What's London built on?"
"More London."

[@koop5365]

Londinium

[@C_In_Outlaw3817]

If you always park near that wall, you’ll always remember where you parked 😂

[@padstowphantom]

Remember we parked at the Roman wall. No, not that Roman wall the other one.😂

[@misterghee1]

All romans went home now!!! Remember wife of Bwayn eh Life of Brain😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Calle2433]

Omg I’m DEAD hahaha dude I choked on my water I’m rolling😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@myslef7636]

explain to the rest of class funnyman

[@helbent4]

@@myslef7636 There is a famous part in the movie Life of Brian where Brian writes the political protest slogan on a Roman Wall: "Romans go home!" And in this case, they did go home.

[@offtan_k9699]

London got them old school easter eggs

[@bethnorris1361]

😂😂

[@FoodNerds]

That is amazing

[@Getbent-e6t]

It's not an Easter egg. It's a roman Wall.

[@emmahealy4863]

The bank my mam works in has a section of Hadrian's Wall in the basement. Love how stupidly common this is in the uk lol

[@ElderSwamp]

You should live in Italy then... Everytime you open a Windows you see romans or medieval things. 😅

[@user-up7nb6id1f]

Mum or mom* you spelled it wrong

[@casey2782]

@@user-up7nb6id1fIn northern England, “mam” is often used too :)

[@charlesknowles7697]

@@user-up7nb6id1f🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[@peadaroduinnin572]

@@user-up7nb6id1f Wrong. Mam is used in parts of Ireland, England, Scotland, and Wales.

[@lindalou6808]

I love all the history that Britains have lived through. Finding a Roman ruin in your parking garage is just surreal.

[@sshafiq543]

True, also building a car park around a Roman ruin is surreal too

[@deus_ex_machina_]

​@@sshafiq543There's so much history in London, if they didn't do stuff like this, they couldn't build anything at all!

[@xixi560]

​@@deus_ex_machina_ yup that's right. If we change "surreal" for "historic" then merge all our comments together and you'll find yourself in an underground carpark.. ^^ Historic(ally significant) comment, fr

[@xixi560]

If you go back in time to a HiStoRic time, and well tbh that's probably enough but basically if you could 'spawn in' anywhere and your goal was to not change the future by idk killing Hitler etc, good luck. The composition of the 'air' or the obstruction of light etc literally anything would change everything in god knows what ways. So a piece of horse shit in a field in Scotland is equal here to the top leading royalty globally, they're equally historically significant. That leader dies or loses that CRITICAL war, our whole world would be different. If I didn't shit myself at 5 years old somehow, well tldr if life is good then you're welcome yk? This comment right here... Fuckin legendary, changed the world yk like 🙄 but also (and more genuinely) it's 100% true.
**Shit**
Just for the extra historical kick

[@lillyc9634]

It's mad just how much the ground level has risen

[@Robert-cu9bm]

or how much the wall has sank

[@henryluczak9156]

Same occurs in all ancient cities. There were no refuse collections in those days. People threw their rubbish outside (even the debris from their old buildings). Eventually the street level became too high and they had to rebuild at a higher level - and so on and so on.

[@lnteIIigence]

​@@Robert-cu9bmsunk

[@Robert-cu9bm]

@@lnteIIigence sank
verb
a simple past tense of sink.

[@lnteIIigence]

@@Robert-cu9bm "It has sunk."
"It sank."

[@liammacaodha4783]

The only non-descript door in London that you can legally walk through without an invite.

[@MasterNick7412]

Nah we got loads. Even a fair few private-looking office buildings are used as common walkways by londoners where we just know theres an entrance on both sides and its quicker to walk through a string of buildings than go around :)

[@myslef7636]

can you explain pls? you need invitation to go to mall, restaraunt etc???

[@MasterNick7412]

@@myslef7636 "non-descript door". Pretty sure restaurants and malls have big signs with their names, sometimes descriptions and signs saying "open" which is an invitation for people to enter

[@gavinrichardson3918]

There a few buildings that have a front and back door that public use to cut through to the next street

[@binaryghosts5131]

You might actually be a vampire, mate.

[@magnus1001]

That was fascinating! I'm from the US and have travelled some of Europe. Over here if something is 50 years old they are ready to tear it down. While visiting cousins in Denmark I fell in love with ancient castles and even attended a wedding in a beautiful 900 year old
church. In England some of my favorite visits were to Stonehenge and also the amazing Roman Baths. History is a treasure for us all.

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Exacly this isn't just THE BRITISH ISLES TREASURES it's also yours as well with the amount of BRITS that went to search for fortune in AMERICA I think about 25-40% must have European ancestry.I'm a BRIT myself but when I had my DNA test I had FRENCH,DUTCH,GERMANIC TRIBES,NORSE(VIKING) and that's what the OLDE ENGLISH LANGUAGE was from it was just a mix.Even when people talk olde English today GERMANS,DUTCH,SWEEDEN & DENMARK can understand most of it..Crazy world

[@demonic_myst4503]

But in 60 years rime ameeican atrictures will fall apart so makes sense modern concrede degrades faster than aincient concrete roman concrete survives hundreds of years while even renisance concrete fails in a fee hubdred at most

[@magnus1001]

@@demonic_myst4503 Not true. I meant the prevailing thought is to tear things down to build new things but we have countless structures including homes and churches that date back hundreds of years, some as far back as the 1600' on the east coast.

[@demonic_myst4503]

@@magnus1001 which are not conrete i specificlay was stating concrete which is a fact modern concrete lasts at mist 100 years whilemroman confete lasts 2000+ years plus the8r massive diference between a 50 year old housing comolex and a relic of a aincient worshio ground i dont see value 8n keeping a 50 year old random persons house sorry but churches are an aceotion if have significance but i dont see reason to maintain most american buildings past 50 years it tAkes cost and maitanence to keep modern materials maintained past that and average crap isnt worth preserving
We only preserve historical importance 8n europe and only down to the colonial age had a massive push of archeology and education we arw not preserv8ng modern stuff we also tear down some 50 year old buildings if have no aignificance the 9nly reason th8s stands out is europe has aincient societies burried under it which so does america piablo and the the missisppi peoples structures those are preserved

[@ninazacharia3003]

​@@demonic_myst4503This person's spelling is so atrocious I still couldn't understand what he was saying even after a second attempt at reading!

[@hannahpumpkins4359]

Actually, the wall was part of the ancient Roman chariot parking - you had to put a coin in an ancient parking meter, and that would give you 2 hours of time!

[@musicloverlondon6070]

A sestertius for 15 minutes and a denarius for an hour.
I wonder if there are any monarchs buried under that car park as well. 😊

[@John--]

My friend forgot to fill the meter and now he's a gladiator.

[@francesgrigsby7400]

✌️😆!!

[@Surv1ve_Thrive]

As another commentor posted, those terracota tiles (edit: or thin bricks) are fairly waterproof, so the layers are to stop water rising within the walls. Damp proof layers. Edit: or to wick water away.

[@JesseP.Watson]

Sounds about right. ...Speaking as a builder, since they'll probably worsen the integrity if anything and... spirit level makes no sense whatsoever, besides, they had plumb lines.

[@markalan1two]

@@JesseP.Watson and they used chorobates as a spirit level

[@bn5055]

Also they're not tiles, they're bricks. The Romans just used relatively thin bricks conpared to modern ones.

[@Surv1ve_Thrive]

@@bn5055 good point

[@tombrown407]

They are in fact, not waterproof.
Earthenware is porous, and will draw up moisture from below. *However* it will also wick away moisture, a bit like sweating. So you might be right about it preventing damp, just breathably, rather than by being waterproof.
The Romans had huge problems with rising damp in the early days of their time in Britain. As a colonialist empire, they exported comforts of home -like Mediterranean style masonry houses-, which occasionally smacked face first into the harsher climate of Britain.

[@abSEA1969]

In Spring 1991, I spent a semester at the University of London as part of my Bachelor’s in Eng Lit (University of Washington Seattle). One of our British professors took our class to several car parks and industrial basements to see Roman and Medieval artifacts. I’m pretty sure we saw this wall ruin in the previous building which the newer construction was later built around

[@bazztown8698]

Wow .. amazing how those romans managed to build that wall without damaging the car park!

[@ShamileII]

lol!

[@ac1646]

🤣👏👏

[@SalvatoreEscoti]

Actually London was one of the wealthiest, and most important cities in the entire empire.

[@dawnboden6456]

Literally an example of what I see every day, here in Rome 😂 it still strikes me as something special and I feel like I'm getting a deeper look into how the ancient Romans lived.
Such a treat!❤

[@DDoubleEDouble]

In all honestly, as a Londoner, it’s not that special, there are thousands and thousands of 2000+ year old things, many of which are Roman, all over the city. Which is why this wall isn’t guarded or heavily protected at all or moved to a museum. This wall is really really cool, not because of what it is but because of where it is, aka a random car park. Hopefully, it continues to be looked after.

[@Ecstasia1]

Yea I think it's only mind-blowing for people from the US.
The train station parking in Bern also has a piece of the ancient city walls in it.
Same in Mainz and many other cities throughput Europe.
Though I agree, in Greece and most of Italy it's hard to build new buildings without having the constructed site closed for excavations.
They are just very old places.

[@dawnboden6456]

@@Ecstasia1 I don't know, I lived half my life in Rome and I still have moments of that awe. I suppose it's easy to take for granted?

[@DDoubleEDouble]

@@dawnboden6456 this is definitely true!

[@zanderhenriksen6776]

​@@DDoubleEDouble I'm not sure building a car park around it would quire qualify as looking after it though. Bet they'll tear it down just to fit two more cars - or two more lanes at some point

[@TheMurlocKeeper]

If I had the money to travel around the world looking at stuff...THIS is the kinda cool shit i would track down and see.
History can be super interesting!
I love this! :D

[@yourmum69_420]

there are lots more bits of the wall all over the City of London, so that car park is not all that special tbh.
I would recommend visiting the Roman temple of Mithras in London though. It's free and very interesting

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

We had ROMAN SOLDIERS GRAFFITI in my grandfathers cottage when blocks from HADRIAN'S WALL fell into the back of his truck accidentally that is 😉I think it translated to "For art though god" he used the blocks when he built his cottage..

[@WannaBeHocker]

Rumor has it - if you run straight at it you will end up at Hogwarts

[@Dante343]

This is actually a really good comment 😂

[@WannaBeHocker]

@@Dante343 I don't always make comments, but when I do, they are at least very good

[@turnerIott]

My first thought was that tapping on it will bring you to Diagon Alley 😂

[@hallamhal]

If you run straight at it you will end up in jail

[@Ghauster]

@@hallamhal if your put enough effort into it. You might spend a few days at the hospital first.

[@itallia666]

🇬🇧 Oooh yes, I live in Newcastle Upon Tyne in the far north of Britain & along a certain Lane in the old part of my city,
through the doors of an office block, take the down stairs & along the underground car park where very proudly displayed is
a good part of Hadrians Roman Wall.
this road ended at a place beyond the city at a town called aptly
Wallsend.
i was so surprised when i found this piece of world famous Roman
artifact, below the city in a carpark
However it was beautifully displayed & lit up behind specialised glass & well alarmed.
i have followed all the ancient walls surrounding the very old city of Newcastle,. they are mainly all there & date back 1,000yrs or more.
all the way up towards the farthest begining of the Wall at the West of our county you can see parts of the Roman Wall on the centre barrier of the main road!
i actually live not far from the major part of Hadrians Wall
its as it was, just there in the desolate countryside
its not fenced off or protected
you can still walk along its length
lovely to have something so accessable from ancient history
AMAZING
🇬🇧👧

[@yeetanddelete]

The tiles aren't in the wall to be a spirt level, they act as a damp course to stop damp penetrating through the whole wall, from top to bottom, also decorative

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Yup 100% 👍

[@3pipper]

Exquisite, when you explore non-descript places and find tangible real displays of days gone past… magical indeed…

[@randilevson9547]

Great to know that this section has survived and been preserved. Not just demolished in the name of progress.

[@monjiaitaly]

Much respect for the English preserving their history.

[@Blitterbug]

Thanks for saying English, not British!

[@krashd]

@@Blitterbug Get a life, Gammon.

[@Blitterbug]

@@krashd Who? Very odd. You should try scowling less and enjoy yourself more, maybe get out a little. Might make you sociable!

[@kepckatherinec805]

So cool! So much history right below the streets of London. If archaeologists dug underneath my street, all they would find would be utility pipes and cables, and lots of worms and mole tunnels.

[@tagmanuk9633]

Done some work in Bank of America at St Pauls and they have part of a roman wall under one of their office blocks. Can be seen through a glass floor

[@Mxgenta]

this is like when the gamedevs hide something behind the waterfall lol

[@YoSmoked]

*Let's just appreciate how much of work and time he put into these videos 💘💘*

[@sherkhan_5050]

I thought it was a gateway to Diagon alley

[@carmenmonoxide7459]

The oldest building I've been to in the US is on the next block from where I live. Circa 1580. It's an small stone/wood one level house but it's in the "hood" and tours aren't given often. It's a hidden gem IMO

[@mackenzieblair8135]

That’s impressive considering a building from 1580 predates the founding of Jamestown by 30 years.

[@marcoroberts9462]

@@mackenzieblair8135 spanish florida?? idrk when they founded it

[@mackenzieblair8135]

@@marcoroberts9462 St Augustine was founded in the 1560s as a mission but nothing remains.
My point is that OP clearly has their dates mixed up because there’s no chance there’s a house from 1580 just chilling in their local “hood.” Not to mention, most of the oldest standing structures are churches, forts, and government buildings.
There’s a list of oldest surviving structures in North America… by the description it’s likely a log house in Darby, PA that dates to 1640. Having lived in west Philly, Darby is indeed the hood.

[@ryanletchford2450]

​@@marcoroberts9462 the English set up colonies like 50 odd years before the spanish did

[@marcoroberts9462]

@@ryanletchford2450 other way around

[@codywarhawk7099]

As an archaeologist, I appreciate this video. Thanks for posting. I love stuff like this.

[@lapamful]

But how nice they incorporated the wall into the car park structure instead of destroying it or just moving it somewhere else, like some museum somewhere, where it would be displayed as just another anonymous Roman wall from another place and another time. Beautiful.

[@yorkiegilly4355]

There are a few old City walls under the city streets in various places ,not all in London . There is a big chunk under Sheffield city center it was what was left of the Castle after the Roundheads burned it down during the English Civil War in the 17th century . York has some similar remains .

[@adamc91]

Look up Colchester! There’s lots of Roman walls and even a castle!

[@andrewyellstrom2585]

Man I love stuff like this

[@douglasorlandobustamanteri975]

I love the fact that they kept it and didn't demolish it

[@KonnieHua1980]

I enjoyed London. I found it super eclectic, with alot going on. One of the things that stood out was how it has buildings from different centuries next to each other; a Roman structure, next to a Medieval one that's next to a Baroque one, and that's next to a modern 20th century high rise. I also think it's an incredibly diverse City. I found it fascinating. Need to go back with more time to explore its history and new food scene.

[@jocelyngarvin188]

That's wicked cool!! Wish I'd known this was there when I got to London!!

[@nikitagerasimuk2928]

Hi, love this channel!!! I live in London so can you please comment and give the address to where this is? Thanks!! Make more videos!

[@racheltaylor6578]

London Wall Underground car park in the City of London.

[@livinglondonhistory]

Thanks very much! The doorway is on the corner of London Wall and Coleman Street :)

[@RiverMersey]

On entering the door, text on the video gives the address!😂

[@TheDiamondMelon]

History really is amazing

[@user-ef4lr7to5m]

That Roman Wool is truly amazing.

[@mimsyborogove3906]

I'd never see this on my own, so thanks for posting it.

[@mospeada1152]

Amazes me how old ruins are always built upon.

[@petergoestohollywood382]

You are very welcome to come and visite cologne. At almost every corner there is some remnants of some Roman walls. There’s even a famous cologne underground night tour visiting various places of old Roman foundations and catacombs. Pretty solid!

[@bushcrafty7274]

Not as good

[@daddyleon]

Thanks! Might do that!

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

We went there many many moons back because I had a German uncle who was a Nazi (Seriously) when he died we went over to GERMANY to collect all his belongings and sell is house.And when we we're going through the house there was a NAZI ARMY UNIFORM in his wardrobe with his medals still pinned on which looked brand new he must of took pride in that uniform.But I never met the guy and his name was JÜRGEN FRITZ I was only 7-8 years ago at the time so I only have very vivid memories of it..

[@finolaomurchu8217]

It's fantastic the way English people recognise the importance. Even if the builders were colonisers of native English, you'll keep it.

[@patrickjohnson2886]

Fascinating !!! Love this stuff 🤓👍🏻

[@sparagmos4748]

The above ground parts of the wall are just along London Wall outside the Museum.

[@smeghead7698]

There's a section of the wall next to tower hill tube station also.

[@sparagmos4748]

@@smeghead7698 I've never really noticed it, but I'm aware of it Lister,🫡

[@lqr824]

yes, this is London Wall car park under Beech St.

[@marginal5774]

Question, would one arrive on the same spot using the car park entrance?

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Yup..

[@dmo4097]

So happy it wasn't destroyed for a car park!🎉

[@virtualmadworld]

Thats what King Richard said 😂

[@jantjarks7946]

Don't worry, we destroyed so much for car centric cities. After all, who would want to build human centric cities?
🤔🤷😉

[@lizzyanthus1]

Wow, that's so cool! Would love to see it. Hidden gems.

[@benleah4783]

Technically, it's not London's wall; it's The City of London's wall ... London is two cities. The City of London is inside of London. It has a different mayor and police force.

[@xxxxxx400]

It is Londinium wall.

[@paulh7360]

London Wall is the name of the road

[@jamiebennett6354]

that was a good documentary, how the city of London was technically the world's money center and NO ONE could breach its walls to get inside. love how the ruling Mayor works for free. I wonder if the rules still apply that you must be a member to set up business or live in that section

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

​​@@jamiebennett6354That's where all the BIG MONEY gets laundered through the city of London especially RUSSIAN & ARAB💰 MONEY

[@ranns2805]

Explanation please for why ground level has risen over the years!

[@patrickkeller2193]

It's a natural process that happens almost everywhere. Dust gets picked up by the winds and deposited over time, If it's just a few millimeter a year, it's still several meters in a thousand.

[@hypsyzygy506]

Also uncollected litter.
Collapsed buildings, repaving of roads. If you look at UK town centre roads being dug up or repaired you'll see the old tram tracks and cobbles under the asphalt.
Many London churchyards became full in the 18th and 19th centuries. Legally they were the only place to bury bodies. One solution was to add four or five feet of soil and start again.

[@ranns2805]

@@patrickkeller2193 Thank You!

[@AdhikJoshi]

@@patrickkeller2193 dust must be coming from somewhere? Is contents on earth remains relatively same, it's impossible for entire surface to raise like this

[@Crusty_Camper]

I blame the worms.

[@sbraypaynt]

This man said corridors like it was the first time he’s ever seen that word.
“CORRYDOORZ”

[@captaindishman9126]

I love how you give directions like I'm going to visit. I haven't had a vacation in 28 years. Thanks for the sample though.

[@mizzyys262]

Things like this are so so cool 😭😍

[@Scouse_Wayne]

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

[@theparanoidandroid3583]

42!

[@Blitterbug]

I know that's HH but can't recall the context...

[@user-us9wu1xk1z]

That's freaking awesome!

[@fredflintstone8048]

It's interesting that around the world newer cities get built on top of old ones. This is commonly found in Egypt.

[@Rukia921]

Ground level has risen over the years… MUD FLOODS!

[@StormsandSaugeye]

That part of London routinely got floods and the likes, so the area of londinium eventually was just buried with sediments. That's also why the Hadrian wall is still exposed, all because of the fact that it's on an erosion feature. The mud flood stuff was never once proven as anything other than ignorance of historical buildings and building styles.

[@soniiabaybee]

I went to the Roman Mithraem under London, very nice place

[@ambergris5705]

In Geneva, there's a parking lot where the first level's wall is basically the medieval guard wall. It's very well done, with explanations and everything, and it's usually a nice stop: cool in the summer, warm in the winter!

[@lillypadexpress3013]

That has to be the coolest thing I've learned in a while. This is why I love history.

[@ginghamt.c.5973]

I told my wife - this is what happens if you don't dust the house every day.

[@openorwap5412]

She allows you to stop dusting to speak to her?! She is most merciful 😌

[@chloed.01]

I love how they put a no parking sign on the fence guarding an actual part of a wall as if someone was going to try and park there anyway

[@openorwap5412]

You'd be surprised 😏

[@alemgas]

It's for Americans

[@ianworley8169]

Unlike London's Roman ruins, 30 feet below ground, there's a Roman town near where I live, which was abandoned in medieval times, whose ruins lie at the surface. The site is now open fields, with most of the stone masonry long carted away to build local castles and churches. If you scratch the ground of those fields, you unearth broken terracotta roof tiles, inches below the surface. The town once had 15,000 residents and is called Ammaia. It is located in the Sao Mamede national park, Alentejo Portugal. An incredible place, where only 5% of the town has been archeologically excavated.

[@embryocean]

That's actually fucking incredible

[@claremccormack2613]

This is fascinating

[@dogwalker666]

Lots of walls around here have those terracotta tiles in them .

[@emmahealy4863]

There's a whole village bear me that's made out of stone from Hadrian's Wall lol. Classic Brits, nicking everything we can get our hands on

[@dogwalker666]

@@emmahealy4863 Cough Cough yes indeed, There are bits of the wall in lots of the old houses.

[@Motty1066]

I love this channel

[@johnclavis]

Fascinating, thank you

[@nematolvajkergetok5104]

How cute. Now go to Budapest, find Flórián tér, go down to the underground passage, and bam, see the remnants of Aquincum, the Roman city that once stood there. Go a few bus stops to the north from there, and you will see the remnants of a patrician's villa and sections of an aqueduct. Go south, and there's a whole Roman amphitheater. An amazing sight right next to high-rise Commie blocks.

[@jasonwhite1069]

How cute? Okay, chest-beater...your ruins are bigger than their ruins.

[@nematolvajkergetok5104]

@@jasonwhite1069 I see I hit a nerve. Don't worry, you still have the best plundered artifact collection in your museums.

[@jasonwhite1069]

I don't live in the UK, thus the "their ruins". Thanks for playing, though.

[@nematolvajkergetok5104]

@@jasonwhite1069 Well, at least that's a wise life choice.

[@mescko]

I love seeing remnants of the Roman walls when I've been in England. If I get there again Hadrian's wall will be on my itinerary.

[@martinstent5339]

If you are on the south coast, take a look at Pevensey castle. A whole Roman castle (OK, bits of it were rebuilt by the Normans, so only 1000 years old) but you can see the same Roman feature of the teracotta tiles running through. I think they just liked the way the tiles looked, and they had nothing to do with getting it level.

[@emmahealy4863]

I hope you get a chance to visit, I would personally recommend Housesteads Roman Fort, because you can see the ruins (including an iconic public toilet!) and the scenery in general is very good (the wall basically runs along the top of a cliff, very beautiful)

[@khuutznetsov]

Is it just me, or does it feel modern/dystopian as hell that this is a piece of priceless history, and its just surrounded by a car parking lot.

[@donaldham308]

Ok. Thats really cool. And good on them for leaving at least parts of it around their construction and modernization.

[@tortilla8145]

That's not just London, that's The City of London, which is serperate from the rest of London! It's... complicated...

[@sumansaurabh9496]

Thank goodness it was a parking lot. Knowing Britishers, I thought there was an underground British museum too, filled with, you know, gifts from around the world.

[@SilesianWarrior]

It's great they preserved it, you can learn a lot about the world from that era just by examining the traces of pollen in the mortar itself.

[@astrahl1]

The US is such a new country, seeing things like this is really transformative

[@Zonnymaka]

I love to see how amazed and excited they are to find a roman wall...come to Italy, then you will say "yeah, it's just an ordinary city wall"

[@maniacal1870]

That is....actually awesome.

[@Champagne1]

That’s Really Cool !!! 💖💖💖💖🇬🇧🇨🇦

[@shadowhenge7118]

Its cool when cities do this instead of just remove it. It also shows how quick an entire city can be buried unless a concerted effort is made to keep the ground level at the same height.

[@daywalker3735]

I love how Europe just builds around ancient ruins.
I went to an ice cream shop in Athens, and there was a glass panel on the floor where you could see some ancient stone ruins underneath

[@mks9469]

How cool!!! What an amazing piece of history!!

[@brickbot2.038]

I wish we had things like this in America, the colonial stuff is so much less rich.

[@itsacarolbthing5221]

That's outstanding!!

[@zero11010]

My favorite part about about this is … the reason for that elevation change is human waste.
Wind and water erode soil. It takes effort to add soil to a place. Certainly takes a lot of effort to add multiple stories worth of earth. Garbage on top of garbage on top of garbage. Eventually microbes break things down especially before the plastic era.

[@someone-wh2rb]

that looks like the average non accessible gta 5 door

[@Lavender-be8uf]

I usually skip on the first part but he got me on the first half ngl.

[@prematuredgravy8033]

That’s actually really cool

[@Glitch_343]

If you walk around the surrounding area of Spittlefields Market, you'll come across some windows in the pavement. Look through and you'll see more of the old Roman London Wall.
Amazing thing to look at

[@bryangray7520]

That is cool, thank you for sharing. Hod bless

[@AxeAR]

"City of London - NO PARKING"
Aw chucks, I guess I'll just find another wall to park into

[@DenaInWyo]

Ate at a pub in Canterbury that purported to be 500+ years old. You had to walk down stairs from the street level into it because the street had risen so far over time. Thought that was kind of interesting.

[@NoSirNotTodayOrTomorrow]

I love the respect paid to these historical structures.

[@lachatnoir1127]

Go to the smaller london museum.. there is a roman wall there also. But everyone going to the major museums

[@dianedavidson5283]

That is amazing!

[@ChIrish85]

This is so cool ❤❤❤ would love to see this

[@markgilbert9883]

Shit sounds like a call of duty zombie Easter egg tutorial

[@Lara-ec6lv]

They have the exact same thing in Cologne too, so cool!

[@jessyhotima9612]

Thx for showing us