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 A HISTORY OF LONDON [Strype, loc. cit. ; Wren, Parentalia, 266 ; Horsley, Brit. Rom. ii, 331, i, 192 ; Prideaux, Marmor. Oxon. 280 ; Gale, Anton. Itin. 68 ; Chandler, Marm. Oxon. iii, pi. 2, 10 ; Gough, Camden, ii, 92; Allen, HUt. of Lond. i, 21 ; Maitland, Hht. ofLond. i, 17 ; Coll. Antiq. i, 127 ; Illus. Rom. Lond. pi. 2, p. 22, No. I ; Corp.hucr. Latin, vii, 23 ; see above, p. 27.] In 1806 an inscribed hexagonal pedestal about 4 ft. high was dug up behind the London Coffee House, adjoining St. Martin's church, at the point where the old gate stood {ue p. 69).'' It would seem to have been used up in the construction of the adjoining Wall. Above the moulded cornice of the pedestal is a torus moulding ornamented with a scroll-pattern ; the inscription is D M Dh manlbus CL MARTI Cl{audlae) Mart'i- NAE AN XIX nae an{nos) XIX. ANENCLE Anencletus TVS PROVING provinc{iae) CONIVGI coniugi P130ISSIAAE pientissimae. H. S. E Hie sita est The word Anencletus is explained as = servus. [Malcolm, Lond. Rediv. iv, 381 ; Gent. Mag. (1806), ii, 792 ; Rom. Brit. Rem. i, 213 ; Allen, Hist, of London, i, 32, with plate ; Coll. Antiq. i, 131, pi. 45 ; Illus. Rom. Lond. pi. 2, p. 23, No. 2 ; Arch, xl, 46 ; Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), iii, 453 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. xxx', 425 ; Corp. Inscr. Latin, vii, 28.] Together with the last-named were found two pieces of sculpture : a female head, life-size, and a figure of Hercules resting on his club, with lion's skin over left shoulder. The latter is half life-size ; the head, right arm, and legs are wanting _Gent. Mag. loc. cit. pi. I ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, loc. cit. ; Mr. Brock compares, for the circumstances of discovery, the sculptures found in Camomile Street [see p. 95)]. A section of the Roman Wall was met with in digging the foundations of a house on the south side of Ludgate Hill in 1892, running east and west, and joining the tower which formed the south side of the gate [Antiq. xxv, 51 ; see above, p. 69, and Plan C, 57^. A fragment of the Wall from this site is in the British Museum. See also illustrations in Hartridge's Coll. Neiusp. Cuttings, Old London, i, 279 ff, and Archer, Vestiges of Old London, pi. 3. Ludgate Square (Plan C, 206) (Formerly Holiday Yard, Creed Lane). — Bagford, writing in 1 7 14-15, says ' such another [Roman Aqueduct] was found after the Fire by Mr. Span an ancient Citizen in Holyday Yard, Creed Lane, in digging the foundations for a new Building, and this was carried round a Bath that was built in a round Forme with Nitches at an equal Distance for Seats' [Leland Coll. (ed. Hearne), i, Ixvi ; see also itovf. Survey (ed. Strype), ii, App.v, 24]. Maiden Lane. — See Gresham Street. Mansion House (Plan C, 121). — Objects exhibited from time to time, including pottery (1865); mosaic pavement (1870 ; now in Guildhall) ; bronze figure of Mars, spout in form of dog's head, small bronze objects, bone draughtsmen, and Gaulish pottery (all 1869) _Anthropol. Rev. V (1867), Ixxvi ; Arch. Journ. XXV, 164; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxv, 393]. Fragment of a Rutenian bowl with figures (form 37) in British Museum, acquired 1880 ; also a bronze medallion with head of Jupiter Ammon (1865), bronze pin terminating in a female head (1896), and seal-box [J. E. Price, Rom. Antiq. Nat. Safe Deposit (1873), pi. 8, figs. 16, 17] ; in Guildhall, numerous objects, including a shoe, a key, a clay lamp, four spoons, a cinerary urn [Cat. 17] ; a Gaulish bowl of form 37, and a mortarium stamped ^LmNvs [Cat. 506, 628 ; cf. for the latter, pp. 99, 133], and a fragment of late Gaulish stamped ware. In Mr. Hilton Price's collection, a Gaulish bowl with stamp minvso. Mark Lane (Plan C, 10). — Roman tile found in 1744 [Arch, i, 139 ; Leland's Coll. (ed. Hearne), i, 71 ; Allen, Hist, of London, i, 24 ; Soc. Antiq. MS. Min. iv, 20ii] ; pottery and an axe reported 1867-8 [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxiv, 289]. Roman pavement found 1871, of common red tesserae, about 12 ft. square and 8 ft. below ground level ; also pottery, glass, and a bronze key [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxvii, 387, 514]. In 1878-9 was found a cup 'of black Upchurch ware with a grape pattern indented around its edge ' [ibid, xxxv, 1 13]. " It is now in the Guildhall Mus. [Cat. No. i]. " 'To the Departed Spirit of Claudia Martina, aged 19 ; the servant (?) of the province to his most dutiful wife. She lies here.' 114