This site preserves a section of the western Roman city wall of Londinium and a postern or gateway near Ludgate, located close to the boundary of Stationers' Hall just north of Ludgate Hill. The original Roman wall was constructed c. AD 200, with the Ludgate area forming one of the principal western entrances to the city, and the defences were repeatedly refurbished into the medieval period.
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As part of the western circuit of Londinium's landward wall, this stretch helped define the limits of the Roman provincial capital and controlled access along the major westward road towards Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum). The Ludgate sector was strategically important, channelling traffic into the heart of the walled city and remaining in defensive use for over a millennium.
Fragments of Kentish ragstone walling with characteristic Roman bonding courses have been recorded here during 19th- and 20th-century building works, alongside medieval refacing and rebuilding overlying the Roman core. Documentation is limited compared with better-exposed sections at Tower Hill or Noble Street, but the surviving masonry confirms the line of the Roman defensive circuit through this part of the City.
This site preserves a section of the western Roman city wall of Londinium and a postern or gateway near Ludgate, located close to the boundary of Stationers' Hall just north of Ludgate Hill. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Remains of Roman and medieval wall and gateway W of boundary of Stationers' Hall to Ludgate Hill 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: section of Roman wall at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey (0.1 km), London Wall: site of Newgate and 121-124 Newgate Street, remains of Roman and medieval wall, gateway and bastion (0.2 km), London Wall: section of Roman wall and medieval bastion in Postman's Park and King Edward Street (0.4 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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