If Walls Could Talk

Reconstructing Roman London’s fashionable frescos
Han Li, MOLA’s Senior Building Material Specialist, works to reconstruct some of the
thousands of fragments of Roman frescos that have been recovered
from the site of The Liberty in Southwark. IMAGE: © MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
Recent excavations in Southwark have uncovered one of the largest collections of painted Roman wall plaster ever found in London. Carly Hilts spoke to Han Li about ongoing efforts to piece this 2