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> "Wikipedia’s date for that is 43 AD" There was a story a couple of weeks ago[0] about pottery dating from around 3600BCE being found at a site in Shoreditch
by m-i-l 7y ago
> "Wikipedia’s date for that is 43 AD"
There was a story a couple of weeks ago[0] about pottery dating from around 3600BCE being found at a site in Shoreditch (which was being excavated for the new Amazon HQ), suggesting London may have been inhabited considerably longer than previously thought.
[0] https://www.mola.org.uk/blog/largest-group-early-neolithic-pottery-ever-found-london-dated-using-new-technique https://www.mola.org.uk/blog/largest-group-early-neolithic-p... & https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2178-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2178-z
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoThat wouldn't be "London city" that would be "a village which the latter settlement of London expanded to encompass"; which is significantly different. Not longest inhabited areas, but continuously inhabited city.