Time Team Excavation Site Greenwich (London) | place with historical importance, interesting place

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This is Greenwich Park in London, the country’s oldest royal parkland. Henry the Eighth was born here, Queen Elizabeth the First played in his gardens. It’s home to the old royal observatory and the Meridian line. All of time and space is measured from here.

Early in the first millennium, the Roman’s were on this very spot, underneath this mound which is the last high ground before London, there’s a Roman building. Problem is, we don’t know exactly what it is. Earlier archaeology suggests that it might be a villa or a temple or even some kind of fort.

Time Team want to establish what it is and what it can tell us about Roman London. And as usual, we’ve got just three days to do it.
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Coordinates:   51°28'42"N   0°0'15"E
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