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CalProf -> RE: Temple Church in London (5 Dec. 2004 22:51:27 )
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Temple Church is a London location that I revisit, just to see how it's changed. When there I know I'm standing on a piece of medieval historic land. Scholars say that mysterious ancient rites were conducted in the Church to initiate new knights! Because it's close to the Thames, the area was bombed heavily, but more is rebuilt by every new visit!
I'd love to be on archeological project in London! There is a journal called London Archeology, published by the Museum of London -- one of the best places to visit for history (in the Barbican Center by the Roman Wall). The Museum has extraordinary exhibits, such as Georgian carriages and a recreation of the London Fire. One of the best exhibits I've seen anywhere was on the Poultry Street project, the excavation of an area of the old London City, when streets were named after their sale items.
The project was in advance of a new business building planned for that real estate. Digging down, major finds were made down through Victorian, Georgian, Cromwell, Elizabethan...all the way to Roman times when there was a shopping street there near the river. And the Museum recreated the life-size Roman homes, and showed how they were discovered.
That novel by Rutherford, "London" is what archeologists find: cut down through the layers of time, and see the ages of London life back to pre-Celtic times.
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