Discovering town life
at 1 Poultry

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Excavating brick and stone walls at 1 Poultry

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Map of Londinium

What did they find?

1900 years ago Londinium's main road ran through here. The road was 9 metres wide. Archaeologists found evidence of houses, workshops and shops along either side.

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Roman kitchen, reconstruction based on finds from 1 Poultry

What were the houses like?

The houses were based on wooden frames. The walls were made from mud shaped into bricks or from wooden rods woven together and covered with clay. The houses were narrow, close together and probably cramped and dark.

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Merchant's storeroom, reconstruction based on finds from 1 Poultry

Who lived here?

In one building archaeologists found bread ovens, containers for dough and large stones for grinding flour, so a baker probably lived here. Next door was a carpenter's house. It was a long thin building with a workshop at the back, a living room in the middle and a shop facing out onto the street.

The people who lived here were some of the first ever Londoners.