Isbn: 9780954293864 - from temples to thames street - 2000 years of riverside development (pre-construct archaeology monograph) (3 resultados)

Condición: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. A bright, tidy copy. Text in English, with French and German summaries at rear. Monograph no. 7.

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Paperback. Condición: Good. Substantial Roman remains were recognised in the area of Queen Victoria Street as early as 1841, by the antiquarian Charles Roach Smith who recorded 'a wall of extraordinary strength', incorporating fragments of sculpted and moulded stone and marble. A watching brief carried out in the 1960s and a series of excavations on adjacent sites had revealed two major phases of Roman monumental masonry, the latter forming part of a vast building complex extending for over 150m along the river frontage, linked to the construction of the 3rd-century riverside wall.The area remained peripheral to the Roman City until late in the 1st century, and subsequent development was influenced by its challenging t.…