{On plaque attached to the wooden piling:}
From Roman wharf, AD 75: found Fish Street Hill, 1931.
The piling can just be seen in our picture; it's the dark object on a low stand in the corner.
EC3, Lower Thames Street, St Magnus the Martyr
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