London Wall

The stone barrier you are approaching was once the defining edge of life in Roman London. Around the year two hundred, laborers hauled roughly eighty-five thousand tons of Kentish ragstone on river barges to create this massive fortification around their city, which they called Londinium. It stretched for two miles and stood over twenty feet high, creating a formidable boundary that controlled who entered and exited the city for over a thousand years. The sheer scale of the project, which involved transporting over one million individual stone blocks, serves as evidence of the immense resources the Roman Empire poured into this corner of Britain.