The Rise and Fall of Roman London
The Ancients
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The City of London in the Early Third Century
Third century crisis in the roman empire it's a time of crisis is this reflected in london when we get to the late third century this the latter half yes. The place we learn most about what's going on is again the waterfront i talk about the waterfront all the time but we have this very curious and novel change london's waterfront had been restored in the early third century well late second early third centuryLondon shifts from being a place that had all of its attention on the river and the river mattered above all and its key sides were where you invested. People are hacking into them and pulling those timbers away they're not building later on in london because timbers
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