Beneath Excise Office, Between Bishopsgate Street and Broad Street

The Excise Office was located between Bishopsgate Street and Broad Street (now Old Broad Street) in the City of London, in the northeast corner of London’s main financial district. The back of the South Sea House, located at the north-east extremity of Threadneedle Street, where it enters Bishopsgate Street, was formerly the Excise Office. The Excise office is now part of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.514352946748
Longitude: -0.084028244019

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Timeline of Events Associated with Beneath Excise Office, Between Bishopsgate Street and Broad Street

Date Event Manage
1854

Roman pavement discovered

Engraving of Roman PavementOn March 1854, a mosaic pavement from Roman Londinium was discovered beneath the Excise Office between Bishopgate Street and Broad Street. Image: Engraving, “Tessellated Pavement,” from Charles Roach Smith’s Illustrations of Roman London (1859). This image is in the public domain in the United States as its copyright has expired.

Articles

Virginia Zimmerman, "On Accidental Archaeology"