Posts Tagged "amphitheatre"  A Tour of London’s Roman
Amphitheatre  Walking around the City of London, I’m normally
too busy looking up at towering office blocks to think about
what’s under my feet. But yesterday I took a tour of London’s
subterranean Roman amphitheatre, and realised there’s a whole
world buried beneath the city’s streets.  The monthly
amphitheatre tour is led by Museum of London’s Roman Curator,
Jenny Hall. Our small tour group met in the Museum of London
foyer, then walked down the road to the Guildhall Art Gallery,
which is built on top of the amphitheatre.  Amazingly, the ruins
of the amphitheatre were only discovered in 1988, when builders
were digging foundations for the new art gallery. Archaeologists
had long suspected that the Roman town of Londinium had an
amphitheatre. But as Hall explains, “we’d been looking outside
the city wall and this amphitheatre, unusually, is inside the
city wall”.  These days, the amphitheatre is six to eight metres
below street level, buried under a layer