Londinium
Londinium (mod. London)(see map: The Roman empire (western provinces)). The Roman settlement had no iron age predecessor and was not established until c. AD 50, earlier routes crossing the Thames up river at Westminster. The settlement stood on Cornhill and Ludgate Hill north of the river, with a suburb across the bridge in Southwark. The original settlement was laid out around the northern bridgehead, beside modern London Bridge; it grew to c.25 ha. (62 acres) by the time of its destruction in the Boudiccan revolt of 60/1, when Tacitus states that it was an important trading centre (Annales 14. 33). There is no evidence for any early military presence and the settlement's early status is uncertain. It was most likely a community of traders from other provinces.
Following AD 61 there was a major public building programme including the construction of two...
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