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LONDON, ENGLAND—According to a Euronews report, Lundenwic, the Saxon trading post that grew from the Roman city of Londinium, was larger than previously thought. An excavation conducted at the National Gallery in London uncovered evidence of a hearth dated to the seventh or eighth century, postholes, stake holes, pits, and ditches at what would have been the western end of the Saxon settlement. Researchers led by archaeologist Stephen White of Archaeology South-East also found surviving segments of city walls constructed in the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries at the site. To read about tolls at Anglo-Saxon trading settlements such as Lundenwic, go to "Ancient Tax Time: The Kings' Dues."
