The Origins of London
The Ancients
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Trajan's Forum Complex, Basilica and Forum Complex
It does look likely that trajan is responsible for the big rebuilding of london's forum. The excavations there by gustav mill and trevor brigham show that the back end of the forum complex, they didn't finish building until hadrian's time. And we know theter's a big rebuilding of the water front in the early second century. We've also got new water supplies being organized that time. But quite a bit of that isn't finished off until hadrian. What london sees is a regional, local shadow of what's going on in rome,. built to an architecture familiar in the north west provinces. Not built in the same way as trajan's forum
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