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 ROMANO-BRITISH LONDON piles as in Prince's Street (p. 119) {^Arch. xxvii, 147 ; Allen, Hist, of London, i, 31 ; Morgan, Rom.-Brit. Mosaic Pavements, 181; YLescy, Descr. of Sewers, 112]. In 1843, at the south-west corner of Tokenhouse Yard (Plan C, n i), and at a depth of from twelve to eighteen feet were found curiously-fluted piles, with fragments of Gaulish pottery, a clay lamp, coins of Vespasian and Nero, and a number of leather sandals and shoes [Gent. Mag. (1843), ■') 532 ; Rom. Brit. Rem. i, 203]. Two iron keys found 1847 [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xii, 12 1, pi. 14], and in 1865 the inner shoe of a wooden spade at the London and Westminster Bank (Plan C, 112) [ibid, xxxi, 84], in 1866 one of the tiles stamped p.p . br . lon [p. 90 ; ibid, xxviii, 282] in 1892 a mosaic pavement (Plan C, 114) _Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), xiv, 25]. There are also vague references to an amphora or seria, 28 in. in height, in the British Museum, and to an iron ring inscribed vitavolo _Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xvii, 325,xxxiii, 335 ; Arch. Journ. xxxiii, 263 ; Land, and Midd. Arch. Soc. Trans, iii, 506 ; Ephem. Epigr. iv, p. 211, No. 716]. In the British Museum are numerous fragments of Gaulish and German pottery of first two centuries, includ- ing a complete bowl of form 37 with figures (Rutenian) ; also stamps of Senicio and Labio (Rutenian), Priscinus (Lezoux), Comitialis (Rheinzabern), Cacasius, Gallinus, and Saren- tius ; alsofragmentsof Castor, painted Romano- British, and third-century Gaulish stamped red ware, a shale spindle-whorl (Franks, 1894), a bronze enamelled brooch, pair of bronze twee- zers, and a branch of a tree or shrub in bronze, apparently from a statue (of Apollo?) [Cat. Land. Antiq. p. II, No. 27]. In the Guildhall, two clay lamps [Cat. 12, 25], a hairpin, and a vase of plain ware. See also Bank of England. Love Lane, Wood Street. — Discovery of a well reported in 188 1, ' probably of Roman origin', but there is nothing to show that it is not mediaeval [Antiq. iii, 184]. Fragments of Gaulish pottery in British Museum and Beth- nal Green Museum [Arch. Rev. i, 356]. LuDGATE. — Strype says : ' Coming in at Ludgate, in the Residentiary 's Yard of St. PauFs, was discovered some years ago, an Aqueduct close adjoining to the Wall of the City ' (Plan C, 173) [Stow-, Survey {ed. Strype, 1 720), ii, App. i, 24]. 'On the west side' [of the Roman colony], says Wren, * was situated the Prae- torian Camp, which was also wall'd in to Lud- gate, in the Vallum of which was dug up near the Gate, after the Fire, a Stone, with an Inscription, and the Figure of a Roman Soldier, which the Surveyor presented to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who sent it to Oxford, and it is reposited among the Arundellian Marbles.' This monument (in the form of a cippus ; fig. 54) was found in 1669, on the site of St. Martin's church ; the soldier stands in an arched niche, and wears belted tunic and chlamys ; in his right hand is a dagger, in his left a roll. Above him is the inscription L>is manibus D M VIVIO MARe ANO M LEG II AVG lANVARIA mar-Fna SNIVNX PIENTISSIMA POSV IT . MEMORAM Vivio Marci- ano militi legionis II Augustae fanuaria Alartina coniunx pientissima posu- it memor{i)am ^^ " 'To the Departed Spirits. To Vivius Marcianus, soldier of the Second Augustan Legion, Januaria Martina his most dutiful wife raised this memorial.' I 113 Fig. 54. — Monument found on Ludgate Hiil 15