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 A HISTORY OF LONDON Bow Lane. — Two mortaria, one fragmentary, were dug up in 1890 at a depth of 22 ft., the complete one bearing the stamp sollvs • F, the other, of which the rim only is preserved, the ., QVINTVS AVERVS VERANIVS, ^, j • .u i .1 • j- .• u triple name the words m the lower row apparently mdicatmg the O GARR. KAC place of manufacture [yourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xlvi, 156 ; Walters, Ancient Pottery, ii, 551 ; cf. Corp. Inscr. Latin, vii, 1334, 63]. Other finds include part of a jar of Upchurch ware, the neck of an amphora with A incised, two tiles (one with figures) and a jar of yellow ware. In the British Museum, pottery of the second century (from Roach Smith), with stamps of Carantinus and Helenus ; in the Guildhall, a plain vase and a mortarium with stamp of Albinus [^Cat. 312, 626]. At the corner of Cannon Street (then Little St. Thomas Apostle), at a depth of 12 ft., a coffin was found in 1839 constructed of tiles but without cover ; it contained the skeleton of an old man, with a copper coin (of Domitian ?) between the teeth [Kelsey, Description of Sewers, 269 ; Gent. Mag. 1 840, i, 420 ; lllus. Rom. Land. 58 ; Arch, xxix, 146 ; cf. yourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, ii, 350 ; xxxix, 435 ; and see above, p. 22]. The remains are said to be in the Guildhall [not in Catalogue]. Bread Street (Plan C, 177). — In 1834-6 were found fragments of Gaulish pottery, some with figures ; mortaria ; fragments of wall-paintings in yellow, white, red, and green ; also pottery from a shaft sunk between this street and Friday Street [/^rch. xxvii, 149]. At the north end of the street, 12 ft. from the surface, a chalk wall crossed Cheapside diagonally towards Wood Street. Fragments of Lezoux pottery in British Museum, also part of a mortarium acquired in 1902 with name of Q. Valerius Tunerius. See also Cannon Street. Bread Street Hill (Plan C, 139")- — Two fragments of Lezoux pottery in British Museum, one with stamp of Numidius (E. B. Price), also fragments of pottery with ' slip * decoration and painted patterns, from the churchyard of St. Nicholas Olave. Foundations of buildings, with walls of rubble and tiles, coins, vases, lamps, &c., discovered in 1844 [I/lus. Lend. News, 20 July, p. 44]. Bridge Street, Blackfriars. — A Roman _/fte/a found in 1854 [Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. i), iii, 105]. See also Blackfriars. Bridgwater Square, Barbican. — Glass bottle in Guildhall ^Cat. 119 ; Arch. Rev. i, 275]. Britain, Little. — A small figure (no details) found in 1791 [Soc. Antiq. MS. Min. xxiv, 192]. Broad Street (New) (Plan C, 26-28). — Roach Smith mentions a coffin bound with iron bands, found at a depth of 14 ft. in 1875, in the line of Houndsuitch {Coll. Antiq. vii, 180]. In 1906 excavations were made on the line of the Roman Wall, close under Allhallows Church, and the vestry of the church was proved to have been built on the foundation of a Roman bastion {Arch. Ix, 196 fF.; Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), xxi, 229 ; and see p. 58]. Broad Street (Old). — The principal find on this site has been the tessellated pavement unearthed in Feb. 1854 under the vaults of the south-east part of the old Excise Office, on the east side of the street (Plan C, 56). On approaching Bishopsgate Street, arched vaults with flat arches beneath were found 12 or 13 ft. below the street level, and under them a bed of coarse concrete, beneath which the first Roman remains appeared (fragments of pottery, glass, mortar, concrete, wall-plaster, and coins), and finally the pavement. It was laid on a bed of hard cement with coarse concrete below resting on the natural soil, and formed the floor of a room 28ft. square; it had been unsuccessfully mended in parts. On the north was another pavement of tiles I 7 in. square [sesquiptdales). It was noted that the site was lower than the Roman level in Bishopsgate Street. The design of the pavement (Fig. 39) resembles one found at Stonesfield, Oxon., the central figure being Europa on the bull ; the other compart- ments are formed by stars of intersecting guilloches, inclosing various devices, and divided by lozenge patterns ; there is an outer border of lotus flowers. The pavement was removed to the Crystal Palace _Arch. xxxvi, p. 203 ff., pis. 18, 19 ; lllus. Rom. Lond, pi. 7, p. 54 ; Arch, yourn. xi, 184; Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. i), iii, 1 14; Morgan, Rom. Brit. Mosaic Pavements, 187]. Another pavement was found in 1792 when making a sewer from St. Peter-le-Poer to Threadneedle Street, behind Winchester House (Plan C, 93) ; it was circular in form, and a quantity of burnt corn and charcoal, with pottery and coins, was laid upon it {Arch, xxxix, 493 ; Coll. Antiq. iii, 257 ; Morgan, Rom. Brit. Mosaic Pavements, 179 ; lllus. Rom. Lond. 56]. A female head of life size of glass and coloured stones is also reported {lllus. Rom. Lond. 56]. On the site of Gresham College (afterwards the Excise Office) a denarius of Severus was found in 1769 [Soc. Antiq. MS. Min. xi, 184]. Other finds are unimportant : a piece of lead piping in 1854 ; part of a jar with strainer, spindle-whorls, a buckle, hairpin, and strigil (1872) {Lond. and Midd. Arch. Soc. Proc. (i860), 3 ; yourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xi, 73 ; xxviii, 77, 273 ; xxix, 71]. Pottery in British Museum 92