Faraday Buildings, Knightrider Street, London EC4

The excavation of three trenches within the Faraday Buildings revealed a partially surviving Roman structure below the east end of Knightrider Street. Deposits interpreted as most likely to be the infilling of first-century Roman gravel quarrying were seen in a trench situated in the north block basement of the building. The third trench, also situated in the north block basement, showed truncation of the natural gravels by the existing structure and recovered some ornamental 19th-century building stone.