RELICS OF ANCIENT LONDON DUG UP

Chronicle (Levin), 2 December 1947, Page 5

RELICS OF ANCIENT LONDON DUG UP

Received IMondaVj 7 p.m. LOXDOX, Dec. 1. Kxcavations carried out during the summer and autumn by the Ronvan an., Medieval London Fxcavation Counei! on bombed sites near the aneient Lon doi: Wall, have disclosed signs of an earthern rampart of earlier eonstruetion tlian tlie wall itself. Coins aiui uilier relics found at this spot place tlu 1 i-onstruction of this rampart in tlie lasl lecade of the first century. Oth^sMinds conlirmed the belief tha the wall itself was built between A.D 120 , and 150 though there wer« many subsequent changes and addi tions. Tliese date from the reign o. Alfred tlfe Oreat to that of Edwar.l Fourth. The excavations also uncovered the site of a large house build in the 14th century by John, the Fifth Baron Hapy, head of tlie Xeville family. Tio documents sliow tliat John Xeville ob rained a grant of the site from the uty corjioration for tlie pavment o 6s Rd yearlv and tlie payment o-1' one rose which, it was stipulated, rnust i >e picked in niidsuinmer. This .Tohu Xeville was tlie great-grandfather o. Warwick tlie Kingmaker, and an ancesttor of the present Royal Hous«ih rough his granddaughter who was tlie mother of Kdward IV.