Excavations on the south side of Cheapside found evidence for Roman
timber buildings and pits dating to the later 1st and 2nd centuries AD,
and a masonry building constructed after c AD 125. The main west-east
road through Londinium lay immediately north of the site. Evidence for
later Roman occupation was limited by modern truncation. No medieval
ground surfaces survive, but the site was reoccupied from the 10th
century with at least one substantial building existing by the 13th
century. Pit and well groups include late 13th- or early 14th-century
vessels associated with the wine trade and early 14th-century
kitchenware.