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 A HISTORY OF LONDON Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxx, 204, pis. 9, 10, and apparently 1 1 ; MS. Cat. of Mayhew Coll. No. 29 ; ue above, p. 9]. [1875.] Opposite Widegate Street a stone coffin was found 13 ft. below the pavement, containing a skeleton (p. 16) ; said to be in the Guildhall, but not in Catalogue [Hartridge, Co//. Newspaper Cuttings, Old London, ii]. The internal measurements are 7 ft. by 4 ft. 4 in. by I ft. 5jin. Another was found in 1891, opposite Artillery Lane, in clearing for the G.E. Ry. extension, and is now in the Guildhall [Cat. p. 107, No. g]. See also St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, and for the Gate here, Arch. Ix, 186, and p. 56 above (Plan C, 24). Blackfriars (Plan C, 207). — Various finds recorded from this site, though with some vagueness as to the exact locality. [5<'^ also Bridge Street.] In 1870 some objects are reported (but not certainly from here) : a hanging bronze lamp with six spouts ; a bronze steelyard ; a clay lamp with four spouts ; and a fragment of Gaulish pottery with figure of Apollo [yourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxvi, 371, with illustrations]. In 1874, a pair of shears, over two hundred pins, needles, &c., of bronze, pottery, tools, and weapons ; some of the bronze objects appear to be unfinished, as if the site was one where they were manufactured [Ibid, xxx, 72, 94]. In 1879 * hexagonal green glass bottle [Ibid, xxxv, 428]. In the British Museum are frag- ments of Lezoux pottery (one with stamp of Potitianus) ; in the Guildhall a spindle-whorl [Cat. 180] and a shallow bowl of plain earthenware [Cat. 140] ; in the Bethnal Green Museum a plain vase of brown ware. See also Playhouse Yard. Blomfield Street (Plan C, 104). — In the British Museum (from Roach Smith) a circular plate of bronze found here, with design in relief of the wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, in some- what coarse barbaric style (Fig. 38) [Illus. Rom. Land. 76 ; Cat. Land. Antiq. p. II, No. 28 ; Arch, xxix, 153]. An important cremation burial was unearthed in 1868 in the part of the street formerly known as Broker Row, on the site of the old Bethlehem Hospital, consisting of an oak coffin, a cube of 18 in. with a domed cover of earthenware, a glass bottle filled with calcined bones and covered with a small earthenware bowl, and two jars of rough pottery (not cinerary urns) [Land, and Midd. Arch. Soc. Trans. 111. 492, Tig. 38. — Bronze Relief of Romulus and Remus (A) pi. 8 ; Proc. Soc. Antiq. (ser. 2), vi, 171 ; Guildhall Mus. Cat. p. 42, No. 156 ; p. 76, no. 4 ; see above, p. 9]. A seria or large amphora found in the coffin is described in yourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc. xxxiii, 337. Other 'cinerary urns' have been found at different times [Arch. xxix, 152]. An iron stylus was found in the same year on the site of the Eye Infirmary, also an iron 'hippo-sandal' (see above) [yourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc. 517]. In the British Museum are three xxxi, 477 ; Lond. and Midd. Arch. Soc. Trans, iii fragments of Rutenian pottery, with stamps of Mandvilus, Valerius, and Vitalis, found in 1838 ; also one of the tiles inscribed p • BR • lon ^ [Illus. Rom. Lond. pi. 8, fig. 5, p. 114 ; Arch, xxix, 157 ; Corp. Inscr. Latin, vii, 1235]. About 50 ft. of the Roman wall was uncovered in April 1885, on the site of Broker Row, near Allhallows Church (Plan C, 80) [Antiq. xi, 1 80 ; Arch, yourn. Ix, 137 ff; see p. 60]. See also London Wall, Moorfields. JJotolph Lane. — Numerous fragments of Gaulish and German pottery in British Museum (Roach Smith), one a complete bowl of Lezoux ware (form 37) ; others with potters' stamps of Logirnus and Cosius Rufus (Graufesenque), Atilianus (Lezoux), Venicarus (German, Rheinzabern), and fragment of Romano-British painted ware. Part of a mortarium found 1846 [Illus. Rom. Lond. 149]. Botolph Wharf. — See Billingsgate. ° On the signification of these inscribed tiles see Hilbner in Corp. Inscr. Lat. vii, 21. ■supposed to stand for ' praetor provinciae Britannicae Londinensis.' See .ilso p. 41. 90 The letters are