A 2,000-year-old section of Watling Street, one of Britain’s most important Roman roads, has been uncovered beneath London’s Old Kent Road.

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A well-preserved section of the 2,000-year-old road, known as Watling Street, was unearthed under Old Kent Road in Southwark ...

Archaeologists long suspected an ancient Roman road cut through modern-day London, but its exact route remained a mystery — until now. The 2,000-year-old route known as Roman Watling Street began in ...

It is part of an important 2,000-year-old road known as Roman Watling Street, built shortly after the Roman invasion of ...

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Roman road surfaces have been discovered around here before, notably at the Cantium Retail Park a little to the north-west. That discovery was slightly south of the course of the modern Old Kent Road, ...