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 A HISTORY OF LONDON a bowl of form 37, nearly perfect, with a boar-hunt, and stamps of potters, all of which belong to the second century. The names are : Cracuna, Cuccillus, Lottius, Minutius, Paterclus, Primulus, Reburrius. There are also two fragments from Maiden Lane. Tessellated pavements (since destroyed) are also recorded, and 'large quantities of white mosaic' [^Gent. Mag. (1843), i, 22, 190 ; ii, 81 ; Rom. Brit. Rem. i, 197 fF. ; cf. ii, 556 ; Proc. Sue. Antiq. (Ser. l), ii, 184 ; "Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, i, 248 ; iv, 335]. Another pavement was recorded in 1848 [Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. i), ii, 126], and one of the perforated clay weights, probably used for looms, in 1846 yourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxviii, 173]. In the British Museum are also ornamented Gaulish pottery from Maiden Lane, a bronze key from Lad Lane, and a plain vase from Cateaton Street (all from E. B. Price). In Bethnal Green Museum, bowl of form 33 with decmim (Lad Lane) and jar of Castor ware found in Cateaton Street, 1845 [Jewitt, ^f/;^«<7r)i, v, 5 I, pi. 4]. Grocers' Hall, Princes Street (Plan C, 1 1 7). — Pavement of concrete with coating of thin red earth found at a depth of 17 ft. 6 in. in 1834 [Kelsey, Descr. of Sewers, 1 12]. Fragment of Rutenian pottery in British Museum with stamp of Logirnus. Guildhall (Plan C, 165). — In excavating for the Sewers office at back of Guildhall in 1861 were found a pavement of grey slate and white marble, and part of a large amphora or seria with stamp OLMEN on handle and MViic VINI scored on neck [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xvii, 325]. In 1884 were found in the same neighbourhood a bronze mortar, 4^ in. high and 23 in. in circum- ference, a long iron knife with bent tang, and a glass bottle, about 12 ft. below the surface, among debris of burnt wood and pottery [Ibid, xl, 224]. In the Guildhall Museum a small alabaster female head [Cat. p. 71, No. 45 (?) ; Arch. Rev. i, 277]. Gutter Lane (Plan C, 179). — Much Gaulish pottery found in 1834-6, one fragment with Apollo and Daphne, another with a human head in high relief (probably from a vase like that from Cornhill, p. 99) ; also a glass bottle, a coin of Carausius, and curved roof tiles [Arch, xxvii, 150]. Fragment of Lezoux pottery in British Museum, with stamp of Censorinus. Haberdashers' Hall. — See Staining Lane. Hart Street, Crutched Friars (Plan C, 6). — A fragment of a sculptured relief found about 1837, now in Guildhall Museum, with three seated female figures with baskets of fruit in their laps, representing the Deae Matres (Fig. 46). Their heads are wanting [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, i, 247 ; ii, 244 ; Arch, xlvi, 177 ; Coll. Antiq. i, 136, pi. 47 ; vii, 212 ; lllus. Rom. Lond. 33 ; Lond. and Midd. Arch. Soc. Tram, i, 32 ; iii, 103 ; Guild. Mus. Cat. I ; Arch. Aeliana, xv, 322, 328, No. 3 ; Roscher, Lexikon d. gr. u. rbm. AJythol. ii, p. 2470, fig. 4 ; Archer, Vestigei of Old Lond. pi. 10, fig. 3 ; Bonner "Jahrhiicher, Ixxxiii, 41]. A group of three similar figures, but standing, found in London, is published by Roach Smith [lllus. Rom. Lond. pi. 6, fig. i]. The cult is probably of German origin, and spread all over central Europe, the three goddesses being worshipped in different places under different appellations or epithets. The inscriptions relating to them extend from Claudius to Gordian, but are mostly of the second century. The latest inscription [Corp. Inscr. Latin, vii, 510, from Britain] styles them Campestres. They appear to have been protective local deities, having some affinity with the Roman Parcae and the Teutonic Norns. In some of the reliefs the two outer ones wear peculiar head-dresses, but the middle one has none ; they always hold baskets of fruit. Haydon Square, Minories. — A stone sarcophagus, found in 1853, ^^ ^^^ north-west corner of the square, 13 ft. below the surface, measuring 5 ft. by 2 ft. ^ in. by I ft. 10 in. It had a cover, and both parts were only ornamented in front, and at the ends, the cover with a band of acanthus leaves, the front of the cofler with a youthful draped bust and other patterns, the ends with baskets of fruits. Within was a leaden coffin, the lid ornamented with the usual bead- and-reel patterns and scallop-shells ; it contained the skeleton of a male child, and a coin of Valens. It is now in the British Museum [fourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, ix, 161 fF, pi. 24-7 ; lllus. Rom. Lond. p. 45, pi. 4 ; Coll. Antiq. iii, 45 ; Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. l), iii, 17 ; x^'^ p. 17 and fig. 5]. Holborn (East of the Bars, with Holborn Viaduct). — In Grew's Cat. of Rarities of the Roy. Soc. 1681, p. 880, is mentioned 'a piece of mosaic work, found deep under ground in Holborn, near St. Andrew's Church, inlaid with black, red, and white stones, in squares and other regular figures ' [5^^ also Stow, Surv. (ed. Strype), ii, App. v, 23 ; Gent. Mag. (1807), i, 417 ; Rom. Brit. Rem. i, 188 ; Morgan, Rom. Brit. Mosaic Pavements, 176]. Near Union Court, opposite St. Andrew's Church, was found in 1833, at a depth of 18 ft., a cubical coffin of oak, measuring 2 ft. 9 in. each way, and containing a few human bones and fragments of pottery ; five complete jars were presented to the Guildhall Library [Geat. Mag. (1833), i, 549 ; Rom. Brit. Rem. i, 211 ; Arch, xxix, 146 ; Kelsey, Descr. of Sewers, 446 ; see above p. 8]. Pottery of various kinds was found in excavating for the new street in 1843 [Gent. Mag. (1843), ii, 81, 416] ; pottery and glass in Bartlett's Buildings in 1852, and a mask of Diana 104