Date
Friday, 28th July 2017
The City is once more bringing back the Romans to Guildhall....visitlondon.com/romans
Explore London's Roman history...
Trauma
- 28 July – 29 October 2017
- London’s Roman Amphitheatre, Guildhall Art Gallery EC2V 5AE
- Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; Sun 12noon-4pm
- FREE
The Gladiator returns to the arena
In the atmospheric surrounds of London’s Roman Amphitheatre, come face-to-face with a Roman skull uncovered during excavations in the Walbrook Stream. Dating to around AD150, the skull shows evidence of substantial head trauma around the time of death. This is the closest archaeologists have come to identifying a potential gladiator in Londinium. This exhibition looks at representations of gladiators in Londinium and imagines what life may have been like for early visitors to the Amphitheatre, whether they watched the games or, tragically, met their end in them.