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Every place Strata has dug, assembled from its sources and filed by locality and era. A place is reviewed again whenever the ground beneath it is dug afresh.
125 places · 53 localities · last reviewed 12 September 2026
United Kingdom
North LeighNorth Leigh holds a Roman villa of some sixty rooms above an Iron Age settlement, a Saxon church tower a thousand years old, and Eynsham Hall, a Georgian hunting lodge torn down and rebuilt grander by the Mason family, later a wartime maternity ward and police training college.
4 digs
47 records
12 records United Kingdom City of LondonThe City of London holds Aldgate, breached by rebels in 1381 and 1471, and the Tower of London, raised by William the Conqueror in the early 1080s, where three queens were beheaded and a 1974 bomb killed a visitor. Sieges, executions and modern violence have all left their mark here. 2 digs
25 records
27 records
4 records
47 records
The mansion torn down and rebuilt grander
Eynsham Hall · 100–2023
The house they knocked down to build a bigger one
Eynsham Hall, Terrace Walls To Rear · 700 BC–1981
The house that got torn down to build a bigger one
Eynsham Hall, Terrace Walls To Rear · 100 BC–1981
The house that kept getting torn down
Eynsham Hall, Terrace Walls To Rear · 100 BC–1981
United Kingdom
WoodstockWoodstock grew up around a royal hunting lodge and its palace, where kings, mistresses and a future queen once stayed. That palace is gone, but its memory survives in the ground nearby, including Bear Close, named for the old Bear Inn that once held it as pasture.
1 dig12 records United Kingdom City of LondonThe City of London holds Aldgate, breached by rebels in 1381 and 1471, and the Tower of London, raised by William the Conqueror in the early 1080s, where three queens were beheaded and a 1974 bomb killed a visitor. Sieges, executions and modern violence have all left their mark here. 2 digs
25 records
Three queens beheaded a few paces from a Norman keep
Tower of London · 200–2014
Rebels died under a dropped portcullis at this gate
Aldgate House · 50–1888
United Kingdom
Tower HamletsTower Hamlets holds a Roman bath house buried beneath Wapping's streets and the Norman keep William the Conqueror began at the Tower of London in the early 1080s. Between them lie centuries of upheaval: murder on Ratcliff Highway, executions at Tower Green, and a 1974 bomb in the White Tower's mortar room.
2 digs27 records
A bomb reached the room where two kings had already fallen
White Tower · 1078–1974
A Roman bath house lies beneath Wapping Lane
Eluna Apartments · 1799–1936
United Kingdom
City of WestminsterThe City of Westminster's record here gathers around Monmouth House, near Broadwick Street, where a contaminated pump caused the 1854 cholera outbreak that killed 616 people and changed how disease itself was understood.
1 dig4 records
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