How long after the withdrawal of the Romans did Londinium cease to look like the Roman city it was?

by goddamnitcletus

In the recent game Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, one of the locations is the city of Lunden circa the late 9th century CE, about 400 years after the Romans left. The city does look distinctively Roman, with a standing amphitheater, a villa which is still used, statuary, fortified walls, frescoes, and plenty of ruins throughout. The landscape in the rest of the game is also dotted with plenty of Roman buildings and architecture in various states of repair. I assume the creators took some creative liberties when designing the environment, but historically in other games in the franchise they have done a lot in the ways of presenting places accurately. London today obviously doesn't still have these structures, and does not have much standing Roman history remaining to my knowledge outside of some walls. How long were these large structures used by the successors of the Romans before being replaced?

DanKensington

There's some liberties taken. More can always be said on London in the sub-Roman period and afterwards, so if anyone would like to comment about it, please don't hesitate to do so! We always welcome new posts bringing insight.

For the meantime, OP, AC: Valhalla's depiction of the city has been asked about before, and the game's depiction has been addressed in the AMA we ran when it dropped by u/BRIStoneman, with some expansion in a later answer.