Within these walls: Roman and medieval defences north of Newgate at the Merrill Lynch Financial Centre, City of London patterns of cemetery use and

patterns of cemetery use and the physical characteristics of the population

cemetery and related buildings

but the medieval roof structure that supported it and the transept wooden ceilings that preceded it feature in a story that spans the period from the mid 12th century into the 21st and saw many significant post-medieval interventions

and the development of the palace up to the fire of 1834

Within these walls: Roman and medieval defences north of Newgate at the Merrill Lynch Financial Centre, City of London patterns of cemetery use and2007 Jo Lyon Roman and later activity was recorded north of Newgate, with the Roman defensive wall and a medieval bastion preserved in the new development. Stream channels gave way to early Roman settlement, with the citys defensive wall built in the late 2nd century AD. The defensive ditch was redug in the Late Saxon period and the Roman wall repaired, with the area becoming the site of the Greyfriars Friary in 1225. The Citys growth saw the ditch