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Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall

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275 points zeristor | 1 comments | 11 Nov 25 22:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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tom_alexander ◴[11 Nov 25 23:29 UTC] No.45894350[source]▶
> ground level then was a few metres lower than now

What?! That's huge. What happened?

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1. trenchpilgrim ◴[12 Nov 25 00:04 UTC] No.45894622[source]▶
Every time a building fell apart due to earthquake, fire, flood, war, abandonment- the good material was taken for reuse and the bad material became rubble which was often smoothed out and used as a foundation.