This stretch of the London Wall, running from the western end of All Hallows-on-the-Wall church to 38 Camomile Street, formed part of the landward defensive circuit of Roman Londinium, constructed c. AD 190–225 under the Severan administration. The wall here ran along the northeast sector of the city, standing approximately 6 metres high and 2.4–3 metres thick at the base, built of Kentish ragstone with characteristic bonding courses of red tile. This section lay between the forts of Cripplegate (to the west) and the eastern gate of Bishopsgate.
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This sector demonstrates the monumental enclosure of Londinium, which transformed the provincial capital into one of the largest walled cities in the northwestern Empire, enclosing some 134 hectares. The Camomile Street stretch is particularly notable for proximity to a Roman cemetery zone immediately outside the wall, reflecting standard Roman practice of extramural burial.
Excavations in this area, notably at Camomile Street in 1876 and subsequent investigations, recovered the famous Camomile Street Soldier — a tombstone of a legionary reused as core material in a later bastion (Bastion 10), along with other funerary sculpture indicating the robbing of an adjacent cemetery for the medieval bastion additions. Standing fabric survives in places incorporated into later medieval refacing, with Roman courses visible at the base in the All Hallows
This stretch of the London Wall, running from the western end of All Hallows-on-the-Wall church to 38 Camomile Street, formed part of the landward defensive circuit of Roman Londinium, constructed c. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
London Wall: remains of Roman and medieval wall from W end of All Hallows Church to 38 Camomile Street is classified as a Roman site — a civilian site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion, Camomile Street (0.2 km), London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion, Goring Street (0.3 km), London Wall: remains of Roman wall and conduit and medieval postern, Bloomfield House to site of Moor Gate (0.4 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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