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Re:The Viking Invasion of Leicestershire (2012) by ekianjo on Monday February 22, 2021 @07:15AM (#26223622)
The collapse of the roman empire is still visible today as far as I know. Thats a pretty big event that has had a major impact on Europe as we know it, and the world at large.
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Re:The Viking Invasion of Leicestershire (2012) by SEJeff on Monday February 22, 2021 @10:21AM (#26225513)
In central london (London Wall is the name of the road), you can see 9-10 turrets from the original Roman city of "Londonium". I've walked this road and seen a handful of them. To be able to reach out and touch something that was built by Roman soldiers over a thousands of years ago is simply amazing to me.

One of them is set in a garden behind a church and it is really beautiful. My wife and I had a picnic there and it was surreal.

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Re:The Viking Invasion of Leicestershire (2012) by mncharity on Monday February 22, 2021 @10:47AM (#26225811)
> One of them is set in a garden behind a church

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Roman_London_wal... (pictures)

I thought these two also interesting:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Roman_London_wal... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Roman_London_wal...

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Re:The Viking Invasion of Leicestershire (2012) by SEJeff on Monday February 22, 2021 @03:06PM (#26229826)
The first link is precisely the one I was speaking of. My employer’s UK office is at 1 London Wall so it wasn’t hard to explore and fine these.

Really fun stuff

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