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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: 0.322s | source
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ipnon ◴[11 Nov 25 23:28 UTC] No.45894342[source]▶
Not bad engineering to make it through a handful of civil wars, a Blitz, and a couple thousand V-1 rockets mostly intact. You have to wonder how long all the steel and concrete that's been laid around the Thames from our civilization will last.
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1. willvarfar ◴[12 Nov 25 06:44 UTC] No.45897055[source]▶
Most of the wall has been plundered for stone and to make way for new development over the past millennium. Its not conflict that has destroyed 2 miles of a 6m high 3m thick wall, it's peace :)