Tablets unearthed in City provide glimpse of Roman London

Early writings discovered under office block being cleared to make way for new Bloomberg headquarters in the City

Tertius the Brewer, Junius the Cooper and Julius Classicus – the up-and-coming young military commander who would turn traitor against Rome a decade later – have sprung back to life from the first decade of Roman London, their names – along with the first reference to London itself – miraculously preserved on writing tablets in a sodden hole in the heart of the City.

The tablets were found under a 1950s office block in the still smelly wet mud of the lost river Wallbrook, as the site was being cleared for a huge new European headquarters for Bloomberg.

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