The Roman Tomb on the Underground

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[@davidsummer8631]

I remember in the 1960s when they discovered that alien space ship at Hobbs End station and that caused a few issues

[@oc2phish07]

I still have that Quatermass film and watch it from time to time. Great little movie.

[@davidsummer8631]

@@oc2phish07 I would love to watch it in one of those disused London underground stations

[@raedwulf61]

@@oc2phish07 Great documentary!

[@brianartillery]

The Government made a really good job of sweeping that under the carpet, I must say. And the station still isn't completed, and that started in 1967. LU, pull your socks up, please. And there's no explanation about that bolt of green light that destroyed Wembley stadium, a few years later, either.

[@tibsie]

I thought it was the time a London Underground construction project awakened a dragon that was hibernating in a cave.

[@street-level]

"Many of those treasures were left behind by tourists who died whilst trying to find the Roman Britain Gallery." 🤣

[@zork999]

"You can't put a price on that." I bet the Procurator would have tried.

[@TheDriller-Killer]

'Romanus Eunt Domus!!!' 😂😂😂

[@juliusapweiler1465]

I like the fact that KZbin felt the need to offer me a "Translate to English" button for your comment.

[@TheDriller-Killer]

@@juliusapweiler1465 Especially when you consider it's grammatically incorrect Latin, the poor translater bot must have has a conniption fit over it. 😂😂😂

[@street-level]

Romani ite domum?

[@ShedTV]

People called Romani, they go the 'ouse?

[@TheDriller-Killer]

@@street-level "Now write it out a hundred times, or I'll cut yer balls off" 😂😂😂

[@bigdunc228]

JAGO IS A COMIC GENIUS, as well as a fantastic railway historian.

[@sameyers2670]

I completely agree

[@JM-oi1ky]

Honestly, we love watching these for the subject, but the dry delivery of a lot of the lines are actually comedy genius and we live for it and the closing pun.

[@QALibrary]

Roman Tomb on the Underground was not on my bingo card esp for today!

[@TalesOfWar]

The archaeological survey thing in modern times is one of the major causes for massive delays in infrastructure projects in Rome. They're always finding some villa or another whenever they dig somewhere. It's fascinating but I can imagine how frustrating it is for the people living there too lol. They used to just build over stuff without any real care for things until fairly recently.

[@tbjtbj7930]

You are the summoning horn to my Roman gallery?

[@nigelcole1936]

Another dead good video thanks Jago

[@thomasm1964]

I disagree. I think Jago made a grave mistake with this one. The best thing he could do now is just bury it somewhere. Maybe he will release a better video tombmorrow.

[@oc2phish07]

Love the comments about the tourists and trying to find a curator in The British Museum. Great video as always, Jago.

[@brianartillery]

Tip for tourists: the best public toilets in London are to be found in The British Museum. They were removed from a temple in Calcutta, in 1924.

[@seanbonella]

Sunday's with the Jago

[@magichatter69]

'Treasures of the Tomb of Noggin the Nog' gave me a real belly laugh, but also sent me off to Wikipedia to confirm that the figures of Nog, Nogbad and the rest, were indeed styled after the Lewis chessmen. Whilst there I also learnt that the name 'Noggin' came to Peter Firmin after an Underground journey through Neasden.

[@brianartillery]

A wonderful, though slightly creepy saga for the tinies. I actually saw some of the exquisitely drawn little figures from it, a few years ago, when there was an exhibition about the work of 'Smallfilms' at my local museum. It was simply delightful. Seeing the actual title card from 'The Clangers', brought me out in goosebumps - not of fear, but that of beloved memory.

[@CornishGardenTeam]

I have a Noggin the Nog mug, sold to me in a pottery shop in Canterbury by none other than Peter Firmin’s daughter Charlotte, sister of Emily, who famously loved Bagpuss. Presumably Charlotte dug up the mug near Canterbury’s walls, thus making it an artefact of incredible provenance. By the way, one of the real Bagpusses owned by the family sat happily in the corner of the shop, Cosmo China, just in case anyone of a certain age wants to pay homage.

[@johnbridger5629]

In Lewes they destroyed a whole corner of Lewes Priory to put the line to Brighton in.

[@DrivermanO]

Furness Abbey in Lancashire got the same treatment. Northampton station obliterated Northampton castle. Berkhamsted Castle only escaped by the skin of its teeth!

[@darylcheshire1618]

Monty Python once said that Margaret Thatcher was slightly less popular than the Black Death.

[@simontay4851]

Slightly? No, a lot less.

[@tomcarl8021]

If she was so unpopular, how come she was the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century?

[@cooperised]

Because of the "first past the post" voting system, which favours the incumbent generally and the Tories specifically. Check out the actual Tory vote share in the "landslide" victories of the 80s.

[@brianartillery]

In Fawlty Towers' last ever episode, 'Basil The Rat', when Basil Fawlty (John Cleese) finds out that Manuel (Andrew Sachs) has bought a rat that he thinks is a hamster, and which subsequently escapes, he says the following to Manuel: "Manuel, have you ever heard of the Black Death? It was very popular here in the middle ages..."

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@cooperised I'm miffed we still have to deal with this. Cameron did his damage on ~30% and Boris' "landslide" was ~40%. Whether you call it "alternative vote" or "instant runoff", even without proportionality it's still much better having choices. (I say from experience, still having to put up with FPTP for Westminster but getting to use STV for council elections.)

[@PokhrajRoy.]

No one messes with Queen Boudicca

[@AtheistOrphan]

‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’

[@jannearo328]

What have the Romans ever done for us?

[@oggaBugga]

I see what you did there. But as an unsolicited counter, I ask you to ponder this. What if the Roman empire had not fallen, and they went through the industrial revolution 1,000 years ago? Where would we be now?...................................

[@foxontherun6082]

Make us think abot their empire once a day?

[@Elitist20]

Boudicca would like a word.

[@TalesOfWar]

@@oggaBugga If those in power had the same kind of thinking we do now with regard to climate change, probably living with much higher sea levels and far less land to actually live on.

[@joshslater2426]

From what I remember thanks to a song they had us sing in school, they invented central heating.

[@nigelcole1936]

I cried so much when Noggin the Nog died , he loved playing chess with his mate Lewis, good to see their chess set

[@mark314158]

I vaguely remember his companion Ivor the Indian...

[@brianfretwell3886]

"You can't put a price on it" well I susppect the man in the tomb when he was procurator could have done that. A nice tying up of the video many might not appreciate!!

[@Lurker1979]

The way they operate. Surprised they never ended up waking a monster of the ancient deep while digging deep into the Earth.

[@neville132bbk]

Seriously... and almost unbelievably in the then later 20th century......whilst doing the huge earthworks to build the latest section of the southern motorway out of Auckland back in the 90s..I think... work stopped at enormous cost, for a while because the local maori tribe insisted there was a taniwha ( water monster) living in the area which must not be disturbed. ... Unless bought off, of course.

[@hairyairey]

Could you imagine if they were right and the water monster was angry about its share of the deal? 😂

[@ap_red]

A note about the arches in York's wall - there was also a road bridge that went over the tracks into the old station, which has been pointless for about a hundred years. So of course, it's only been demolished in the last few weeks, as part of a big rebuild of the area in front of York station.

[@joshslater2426]

I liked that bridge. It was part of a journey I took many times growing up on a trip to the NRM.

[@RJSRdg]

The old station remained in use for parcels until at least the 1970s.

[@roberthuron9160]

And to add,now I know what Pontias Pilate did for a living! Why is it,that the bean counters,always seemingly get priority over the commoners??? Thank you Jago, for another sidelight of Roman and British history!! Thank you 😇 😊!

[@thomasm1964]

Money talks. And sometimes it shouts. Very loudly.

[@homeonegreen9]

Without the bean counters civilization would cease to exist. Logistics, logistics, logistics.

[@scythal]

I mean... the current guy in 10 Downing St was the main bean counter in government under BoJo!

[@pattheplanter]

Alpinus was a name used by Roman citizens who originated in Transalpine Gaul. Gaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus was probably canny about treating natives with tempting Imperial carrots rather than sticks because he had experience of Gaul. Many Gauls had, eventually, become more Roman than the Romans. His life was covered by Being Roman with Mary Beard, episode 7. The Whistleblower on BBC Radio, still available on BBC Sounds for a year after it was broadcast on 7/5/24.

[@wibblywobblyidiotvision]

Noggin the Nog indeed!

[@NineWorldsFromDrew]

Glad to see Crossbones got mentioned! I have often attended the Vigil for the Outcast Dead there, on the 23rd of every month at 7pm. Do you think you’ll do a video covering the attempt to build the Jubilee Line Extension there, before the burial site was found?

[@brianartillery]

Is that the burial site of the unfortunate prostitutes known at the time as 'The Bishop Of Winchester's Geese' or worse, 'Punchable Nuns'? I hope that the site will be left alone, now. It's incumbents need peace.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

This is Jago’s Roman Empire

[@pauljmccluskey5532]

15:49 Fantasticus vloggus as everus by Jagous of Hazzarda ❤

[@brianartillery]

Lovely video. Why didn't those old gits in charge just get a room somewhere? Watkins seemed very fond of the 'Treat him mean, keep him keen' doctrine, to me. And I really wouldn't have liked to be the person who had to go to Nero, and say: "Would you mind awfully not treating the Britons like scum, please? They're really rather good at burning whole cities down - it's something they tend to do when they get a bit peeved about something. They seem to think that us Romans are foreign scum."

[@francesconicoletti2547]

And the surprise when Nero said yes. Maybe Nero just disliked Romans.

[@Scramjet44]

Full Circle for me. I started watching Jago because of his previous video about the Roman Wall, and now quite some time later the same Roman wall plays a substantial part in this video as well. And a very nice video it is.

[@nilo70]

That poor guy waited for a train until he died !

[@Eric_Hunt194]

Fun fact: The Circle line was originally known as the "inner circle" because if you went on it in summer it would make you Sweat (a-la-la-la-la-long) 🎵

[@johnbriggs3916]

There is actually an outer circle -- it is part of the Overground.

[@JW1_1]

Tune!

[@teenmajors6498]

Jago, make a video on the c2c please. Love your videos ❤

[@simontay4851]

What's c2c?

[@AFCManUk]

The location of the tomb of Biggus Diccus remains a mystery to this day.

[@AtheistOrphan]

‘He has a wife you know’

[@thomasm1964]

Are there no nearby erections which might qualify?

[@AFCManUk]

@@AtheistOrphan Incontinetia. . .

[@63sgjunior]

When they find it they'll erect something sizeable to commemorate his importance.

[@bentilbury2002]

Apparently it was a truly magnificent erection.

[@AlanHMartin]

Re: the changing attitudes to Roman ruins (6:44): In early August 1973, a professional surveyor friend of my Fulham/Dorking maternal cousins kindly gifted me with four Ordinance Survey maps. Even as a rather heads-down 14-yo, it was obvious to me from the presence of a "Roman ruins" symbol in the map legends (in markèd contrast to those for my USGS topo quads) that folks in the UK derived singular pleasure from having been invaded by the likes of Julius Caesar.

[@prillewitz]

Lovely video Jago! I follow someone from Manchester which also sometimes reports about the old buildings being demolished without thought. Good to see some conscious building.

[@pattheplanter]

Is that Martin Zero?

[@prillewitz]

@@pattheplanter yes it is!

[@fosterfuchs]

People claim that we don't care about old buildings any more these days. The opposite is true actually. The National Heritage List for England (or the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S.) are a relatively new phenomenon. As is pointed out in the video, historic remains simply used to be destroyed when they got in the way of new construction. It's much better now, with required surveys prior to construction, to make sure nothing of significance is being endangered. Back when I went to graduate school, I had a job at the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey. One of my tasks was to review every single proposed construction project in the state (along with 2 other students), to check if there was any chance of archaeological remains being on site. If there was a chance, an archaeologist went out there to check if there were any remains.

[@mickeydodds1]

Apparently, a 17th century tombstone adorns one of the entrances to Bank station, as a memento Mori that what is now the ticket hall of Bank station was the crypt and charnel house of an adjoint church.

[@johnbriggs3916]

I'm pretty certain that you don't mean "adjoint" (even if it is a word.) The church above was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor in the early 18th century.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@johnbriggs3916 adjoint | ˈadʒɔɪnt | Mathematics | adjective relating to or denoting a function or quantity related to a given function or quantity by a particular process of transposition. Seems like they perfectly-well intended to use it to me! The church was related to the old function of the space, before it gained its current purpose.

[@johnbriggs3916]

@kaitlyn__L No. He meant "adjoining," but that isn't really correct. "Above" would be better 😉

[@mickeydodds1]

@@johnbriggs3916 It was the KZbin spell checker combined with fast typing, no proof reading and no correction facility.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@johnbriggs3916 I mean, my dad is the type of person to deliberately use obscure words whenever he can! And it’s not not a word. I’m sure there’s at least one more guy like my dad out there.

[@nataliew5251]

At last! Someone brave enough to tell the truth about the British Museum and how they acquired their collections

[@dancedecker]

Excellent as always Jago. If I recall Newcastle's "new castle" which was actually by then VERY old, was also punched through to make the ECML carry on. "Its 1200 years old." .".Ahh. get rid of it. We'll have some.A4's to come though here soon". Lol.

[@brettpalfrey4665]

Romani Ite Domum!!! (as corrected by John Cleese)

[@EdWensell]

Women: Is it true men think of the Holy Roman Empire on a daily basis? Men:

[@JohnyG29]

The Holy Roman Empire was not the same thing as the Roman Empire.

[@EdWensell]

​@@JohnyG29clearly I am not thinking about it often enough.

[@johnbriggs3916]

​@@JohnyG29 But it did have the distinction of being neither Holy nor Roman nor an Empire.

[@chrisball3778]

York's walls were first built during the Roman period, but there's very little of the actual Roman walls left. Most of the structure is medieval, with much of it heavily restored during Victorian times.

[@isashax]

Love the history lesson. Thanks, Jago!

[@AndrewG1989]

Interesting to hear about the Roman Tomb that was last seen in London. As London is still changing and expanding with many more people living and working in London.

[@tomfromnj4341]

"We are the WHAT to the WHAT!!!!!!!" Love it.

[@catherinesikora8397]

Hi Jago! I am a huge fan of your videos for years. I laugh out loud at your comic genius and eagerly await the next video, relishing the chance to learn about London, trains, and other topics with your own special dollop of humor! In this video at :11, you mention something that the close captioning says is 'Borsig and Selenium'. I have tried to discover what this reference is, trying Bossic, Bosic, Bassic, in addition to Borsig. A few others have also asked, so can you please explain this reference and the correct spelling? I would appreciate it very much as I am sure there is great humor in this statement if only I knew the reference. Thanks so much and thanks for your wonderful service to us by creating these amazing and terrific videos! Cheers, Catherine

[@JagoHazzard]

Glad you asked! It’s just a made-up pairing to confuse people.

[@catherinesikora8397]

@@JagoHazzard Oh my goodness! Well, mission accomplished! Ha ha!

[@gsygsy]

Noggin the Nog! 👍

[@andrewwoods456]

Following your comment on Noggin the Nog, how about a video on Ivor the Engine (same animation studio)

[@Satters]

I relish these historical interludes, thank you so much

[@Floortile]

The tomb you show at the start is that of Sir John Soane - founder of the museum of the same name, and architect of the adorable (I think it is) Dulwich Picture Gallery.

[@Jimyjames73]

Thank you Jago - It's good to hear that when they digging up the ground to make way for the Railway - They find things & take the time to look after it!!! 😊🚂🚂🚂

[@Jimyjames73]

Also What a way to spend an Sunday Even - With Paul Whitewick (Taking a nod towards Geoff with the Bin Bags) on his Story about the Great Train Robbery - Jago & his Roman Tombs, Ant (Trekking Exploration) with his Abandon Derby Railway & Finally with Oscar with his Tri-Ang Model Railway!!! 😎🚂🚂🚂

[@JJJGGG538]

"Classic-yarn-us" sounds like an Asterix name for a roman known for tall tales

[@abbasraza5254]

A MOLAS survey of Crossbones is fascinating - the burial pit was used and used and used between one epidemic and another to the point where people reported remains poking out the surface...it was capped with lime and sits much higher than the land around it. when a victorian school was built on the site they took bones out of the way of the foundation and simply stacked them along side! The land north of the pit has had an amazing roman mural uncovered

[@neilbain8736]

The Antonine Wall has been almost obliterated by many roads, railways, towns and a couple of canals. Much of the outskirts of Glasgow and Clydebank are on top of it as is Falkirk is at the east. When I was being pushed about in my pram to my granny's we crossed it daily but it was all lost on me. The Forth and Clyde Canal cuts through it a few times and I think the Union does too. I had once thought I had found the remains of part of the flight of locks connecting the two canals at Falkirk, but it turned out the be a very steep section of eroded wall and ditch. At the Newhaven end of the tramway, a new annex was being built for the school and a neolithic burial was found. There was quite a lot of news coverage and a lot of miss reporting. I've seen it down as one body, two bodies, and half a body only. That really is curious, because that article said the other half was found in the 1920's so just what were they doing that cut it in half in such a way that they didn't think to wonder about the rest. The tram terminus is exactly on the site of Alex Findlay's ship yard which built spud pontoons for the D Day landings (the 80th anniversary is in a few weeks time). Where the new houses are by the main road, there's a picture of three pontoons side by side on the stocks plus another at the pier. The pontoons were floated and tested in ASDA's car park by the bus terminus- all sea back then. Many quiet locations were used for construction. Old Kilpatrick at the western end of the Antonine Wall, and Garlieston in Dumfries and Galloway were others. The Procurator Fiscal still exists in Scotland. It's the Scottish version of the CPO. Sheriffs are all over the place in Scotland and it's rife with their deputies- Sheriffs Depute (like Doctors Who). In the Wild West, Glasgow, Country and Western music, Elvis impersonations, and cowboys are a way of life. In the Kelvinbridge area there's a statue to Loaby Dosser, sheriff of Calton Creek on his two legged steed, Elfie. Calton is a quaint village near the Barras in Glasgow. See also Bud Neill. He couldn't draw horses with four legs so he gave his two and Glaswegians loved it. Noggin the Nog's chess set and Hagar the Horrible's Helmet. I love the British Museum.

[@PaulWady]

Very well done.

[@peterbumper2769]

All hail Emperor Jago

[@johnspurgeon9083]

I've just invented a new move for Mornington Crescent. If Monument is on the current diagonal, you could use Tower of London to get to Charing Cross. Let's call it the Classicianus Concept.

[@Anonymoususer_2023]

Interesting to know about how a Roman Tomb got there in the first place and how it was transported away from London to a cemetery on the outskirts of London.

[@Digital-Dan]

In 1962, in my Freshman year of college, a mate of mine and I spent an uproarious 48 hours or so regaling each other with common conjunctions, "salt and pepper," "Mamas and Papas," and so on. Doing this is undoubtedly hilarious, but it is impossible to say why. In later years, if we caught sight of each other after who knows how long, we could still find some new xandy to share and laugh/reconnect over. Fun.

[@markstott6689]

I really, really like trains and stuff about trains. However, I love Roman archaeology far more. 😊❤😊

[@Paul020253]

One of your more fascinating videos, I hope that you have more such like films up your sleeve.

[@rainyfeathers9148]

Love a bit of Roman London history, the names and the dates from way back in the 100s

[@Einveldi]

I have never before heard the term "procurator" except in the case of the "procurator fiscal" in Scotland, who is the bizzare half-public prosecutor, half-civil servant, half-coroner at the head of our legal system.

[@ajs41]

Wonderful video as usual.

[@jmtubbs1639]

The architect and novelist Thomas Hardy was involved in removing coffins at Old St Pancras, which I believe was more reverent work than that of the unsupervised navvies.

[@tw25rw]

I was hoping it belonged to Biggus Dickus.

[@simontay4851]

He has a wife, you know...

[@paulm3033]

Very interesting content made even better by the amusing voice over

[@tallthinkev]

(Henry Gordon) Jago and Prof George Litefoot, have a trip on the Necropolis Railway in their story of The Lonely Clock

[@ve2vfd]

Jago "Time Team" Hazzard. :)

[@rufusmurphy9990]

Roobarb & Custard 🤣🤣🤣

[@robp4682]

Well done - another brilliant story

[@LancashireLass]

Mary Beard did a program about Gaius Classicianus on Radio 4 the other week. (Coincidence, or does Jago share my listening habits?) Anyway, it's still on BBC Sounds, it's called "Being Roman" and you want ep.7 if anyone's interested.

[@JM-bg1it]

Well, if Jago doesn't share our listening habits, then its a really spooky co-incidence. I'd never heard of the chap, then two programmes on him come along at once.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

3:06 The Real Head Honchos of British Underground or Selling Circle Line

[@bobcosmic]

Thanks Jago 👊🏽

[@erichhouchens3711]

When you mentioned the Underground encountering old grave sites and other strange things I immediately thought of the British Science Fiction/Horror movie "The Quatermass and the Pit" (1967). This was the first movie I remember seeing that involved the Underground. Yes, I was a science fiction fan, train buff and transit nerd at an young age. Perhaps (if you haven't already) do a video on all the movies that involve the London Underground. As always an excellent video!

[@RJSRdg]

Or the Goon Show spoof of it. Minador! Minador!

[@lwaldron9745]

Best one yet. It must be so cool to live among the relics of the Romans. Over here, all one can dig up is the rubbish of savages. And, poor Mrs. Classicianus... "infelix uxor". Sad.

[@JW1_1]

That Watkin was a smarmy git wasn't he?!

[@mattheweagles5123]

I'll be heading to Tower Hill this summer so I'll be sure to check out the Roman walls

[@huwshepheard3075]

Welcome back Sir Edward Watkin Bt MP! We’ve missed you. Best railway villain of the late 19th century (until Charles Tyson Yerkes came along)

[@kjh23gk]

We still have procurators here in Scotland (or procurators fiscal to give them their full title), I'm guessing it's because Scots Law is partly based on Roman law. Their role has changed to that of public prosecutor.

[@RJSRdg]

That's interesting, given that the Romans didn;t invade Scotland!

[@kjh23gk]

@@RJSRdg They actually did. They built a wall between the Clyde and the Forth (the Antonine Wall). Of course, Scotland wouldn't exist as a country until 700 years later, and Roman law only started being used 700 years after that, in cases when there was no native rule that could be used.

[@andrewstephenson3594]

Jago, I am sure that with some surreptitious ferreting you could find a way of including Asterix and Obelix into one of your videos?🙃

[@MrGreatplum]

Whilst I have a Latin GCSE, my memory of it is fairly weak. However I’m pleased to see that this chap would have been contemporary with Caecilius who was, famously “in horto”…

[@JagoHazzard]

While Grumio est in culina.

[@jasps6549]

Need to dig out my Noggin the Nog DVD now! Thanks for the reminder.

[@TimMiddleton]

5:14 Great to see St Giles' Cripplegate!

[@MrPeach71]

Glad his wife wasn't called Incontinentia.

[@badbob1982]

Incontinentia Buttocks?

[@RichardWatt]

Even today, Scotland has a Procurator Fiscal, whose duties include deciding whether cases go to trial like the CPS in England and Wales.

[@msg5507]

Where'd you want this procuration then guv'nor?

[@RobShinnickCoinCollection]

Must be fascinating to live in an area with so much history underfoot. I live in an American city in Georgia which is considered “old” merely because it dates back to the 1700s! Reckon that’s practically last week to you lot!

[@simontay4851]

No, not last week. Merely? 1700 is old but there are some buildings in the UK that are older. The US only started in 1776 so to have a city that dates back to 1700 is definitely old for you. The only US city i know of in Georgia is Atlanta, which definitely isn't old.

[@RobShinnickCoinCollection]

@@simontay4851 Atlanta isn’t old, but our coastal cities are older. Savannah was founded in 1733. I would imagine for many of you over there, your neighborhood pub is that old, if not older!

[@ludovica8221]

Yes, more history! I am sorry your museum trip was fruitless

Really interesting.

[@applescruff1969]

As an american, I'm so insanely jealous of all the history you guys have in Europe. There's so much of it, you guys get to dig tunnels in the ground and accidentaly stumble upon great bits of history. Lol.

[@handlesarefeckinstupid]

Mostly find unexploded bombs in London. They had to put off building in our Derbyshire town after finding a load of Roman ruins. While excavating the Roman ruins they found older Bronze age stuff. The poor developer was put 2 years behind. 🤣

[@edhaworth8151]

Jago you should do a story on the long delayed new metro line in Rome, delayed largely by the massive amounts of archaeology…

[@stephendavies6949]

Picture of Boudica: Clint Eastwood bottom left & Elvis top right!

[@jacksonmacmanus1001]

apparently Aldgate station is built on a giant plague pit

[@PopeLando]

You know which one is Watkin because of the W shape on his face.

[@johnmurray8428]

Too many great buildings all over the world have been knocked down in the name of progress.

[@tazareal]

They should have swapped that tomb with Brooklyn for Charles Tyson Yerkes'. He's got a nice mausoleum, they could charge for tours

[@GeorgeChoy]

Good evening

[@Illvillainy]

a classic yarn

[@aoilpe]

I would like to see more of these “Found while digging” videos…