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• Excavating the CA Archive – Roman St Albans

  04-09-2025 17:11 via archaeology.co.uk
  To conclude my mini-series on the towns of Roman. famous Romano-British city of all: Verulamium, modern-day St Albans. With much of the city surviving, unexcavated, beneath modern-day park- and farmland, and upstanding elements visible alongside the award-winning museum that was founded by Tessa Verney Wheeler and Mortimer Wheeler in the 1930s (see CA 211 and 216, September 2007 and March 2008, for more on their work at the site, and p.42 of this issue for more on Tessa), there is much to see th
  
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• Current Archaeology 427

  04-09-2025 12:53 via archaeology.co.uk
  This month’s cover feature showcases a colourful discovery from Roman London: vibrant fragments from one of the largest collections of painted wall plaster of this period ever found in the capital. Once part of fashionable frescos, thousands of pieces of plaster had been dumped in a pit associated with the demolition of a high-status building that stood in Southwark almost 2,000 years ago. Now, work is ongoing to piece this ancient jigsaw puzzle back together, revealing fascinating insight
  
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• If Walls Could Talk

  04-09-2025 12:33 via archaeology.co.uk
  Reconstructing Roman London’s fashionable frescos
  Han Li, MOLA’s Senior Building Material Specialist, works to reconstruct some of the
  thousands of fragments of Roman frescos that have been recovered
  from the site of The Liberty in Southwark. IMAGE: © MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
  Recent excavations in Southwark have uncovered one of the largest collections of painted Roman wall plaster ever found in London. Carly Hilts spoke to Han Li about ongoing efforts to piece this 2
  
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