What was the evidence?
The streets at Poultry had been preserved, showing the size of the Roman
buildings and their yards, alleys and drains. Archaeologists recorded over
70 buildings spanning a period of 350 years. Some of the walls survived to
half a metre high, enough to see how they had been built. Archaeologists
even discovered London's most complete Roman door.
Archaeologists worked out how the buildings were used by analysing the
finds and environmental evidence such as pips, seeds and animal bones.
Some questions remained. What did a Roman roof and windows look like? Where
only some of the evidence survives, archaeologists use evidence from other
Roman sites to complete the image of what they think the past was like.
Archaeologists and experts in ancient technology reconstructed the
buildings, as far as possible using techniques the Romans would have used.
They learnt a great deal about Roman buildings, while also finding out how
much there is yet to know.
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