Map showing the find site (green dot) and presumed straight course of Roman road, matching the modern Old Kent Road. The modern road kinks after Commercial Way, and this is perhaps where the old ...

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Archaeologists have uncovered part of the ancient Roman road known as Watling Street beneath modern London's Old Kent Road ... has 'redrawn the Roman road map' for London. Ms King added: 'It ...

Southwark Council said the discovery provides the first physical proof that sections of the ancient route survive directly beneath the modern road ... Roman roads has been unearthed under Old Kent ...

Archaeologists have discovered a section of one of Britain’s most important Roman roads directly beneath the Old Kent Road. It is part of an important 2,000-year-old road known as Roman Watling ...

A section of one of Britain’s most important Roman roads has been unearthed under Old Kent Road in south-east London. Known as Watling Street, the near 2,000-year-old road ran from the Roman ...

During excavations amid the early stages of expanding low carbon heating to thousands of homes along Old Kent Road in London, archaeologists found physical evidence of an ancient Roman road.

"Old Kent Road is one of London’s oldest thoroughfares that embodies much of what makes today’s London special”. Construction workers uncovered a well-preserved section of the 2,000-year-old ...

“The discovery of an intact section of Roman Wating Street directly under the current Old Kent Road has redrawn the Roman road map for Southwark and informs on Roman construction techniques generally, ...