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 ROMANO-BRITISH LONDON Various objects in Guildhall Museum : a clay lamp, an axe head ; a flue-tile {Land, and Midi. Arch. Soc. Trans, iii, 2i6] ; Gaulish pottery, including a jar of red ware with 'slip' decoration [Cat. ^gb], and a bowl of drab polished ware with finely-hatched patterns, imitating Rutenian ware (form 29), and a cinerary urn. In Mr. Ransom's collection at Hitchin, a bowl of red ware stamped o. [p] asn and incised v. avriani. Mercers' Hall. — See Cheapside. Middlesex Street, formerly Petticoat Lane. — Male torso in white marble discovered 1845, at depth of 17 ft. ; height 15 in. Described as a slinger, but the object held in the hands looks more like a hammer yourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, i, 329 ; Archer, Vestiges of old London, pi. 10, fig. i]. Two glass vessels in Guildhall [Cat. 24, 25) ; a clay vase in Mr. Hilton Price's collection. Milk Street. — Vase of Upchurch ware in Guildhall [Cat. 367], and glass vessels {see p. 10) ; lamp in Mr. Hilton Price's possession stamped ^°Y^^ [see also Arch. Rev. i, 356]. Milton Street, Cripplegate. — Bronze three-legged pot [Arch. Rev. i, 356]. Mincing Lane. — In 1824, in making a sewer, the remains of a hypocaust were met with, opposite Clothworkers' Hall (Plan C, 18), at a depth of 18 ft. The arrangement of the flues is described as being very perfectly preserved ; in one of them a vase full of charcoal was found [Kelsey, Descr. of Sewers, 83]. Part of a stone mortar and base and capital of a column found on west side of the lane in 1850, between two floors ; the upper, 12 ft. below the surface, was a tessellated pavement (Plan C, 1 6), the lower composed of gravel, lime, and pounded tiles ; said to indicate two distinct periods [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, vi, 442, pi. 35, vii, 87]. Finds in 1862, comprising Gaulish and Upchurch ware, fragments of amphorae and mortaria, bone pins, and a spoon, also coins of Antonia wife of Drusus, Vespasian, Domitian, Trajan, Antoninus Pius, Constantine, Gratian, and Valentinian [Lond. and Midd. Arch. Soc. Proc. (1862), 91]. Pottery and coins of Domitian, Antoninus Pius, &c., reported in 1877 [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxiv, 134]; glass vessels in 1879 [Ibid, xxxv, 219], and a 'pollubium' of black ware in 188 1 [Ibid, xxxvii, 185]. In 1891, during the rebuilding of the Commercial Sale Rooms (Plan C, 14], a square 'pot-hole' of Roman (?) date was discovered, constructed in regular layers of chalk about 7 ft. deep in area 4 by 7 ft. It contained a green jug, a wooden bowl, a dog's skull, and eggs of a duck and a hen, both perfect. The 'green jug' seems to be open to doubt [Dai/y Graphic, 21 October, 21 November, 1891 ; Antig. xxv, 21]. Excavations in Dunster Court (Plan C, 17) in 1856 yielded, at a depth of 12 to 25 ft., layers of chalk, ragstone, and brick earth, supposed to belong to dwellings formed with ' cob ' walls, and with these, human bones and fragments of pottery ; below were a well and a pathway paved with tesserae [Arch, fourn. xiii, 274]. Jar of black ware with hatched patterns in British Museum ; in the Guildhall, cinerary urns. MiNORiEs. — Various minor finds: amphora-handle with stamp ioran (1848); glass simpulum (the bowl transparent yellow over opaque white); axe-head (1882); lamp with stamp of FORTis (1885) [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xvii, 325 ; xxxvii, 185 ; xxxviii, 207 ; xli, 91]. In British Museum fragments of Gaulish pottery of first century (stamps of Damonus, Niger, and Roppus), and of Castor ware ; in the Guildhall, bone hairpins, a glass bottle, and plain pottery, including a cinerary urn, with cover. Urns of brown ware in Mr. Hilton Price's collection. Roman remains unearthed in 1848, including fragments of tiles and pottery and 'a large full-grown skeleton, said to be Celtic' [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xiii, 239]. Silver vessel found in 1882, together with ashes and fragments of Gaulish and Upchurch pottery; the shape is that of a small cream-jug [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxviii, 106 ; MS. Cat. of Mayhew Coll. No. 48]. See also Church Street, Haydon Square. Mitre Street, Aldgate. — Intaglio gem in Guildhall Museum, with design of a woman leaning on a column [Cat. 400]. MoNKWELL Street (Plan C, 38). — Fragment ot Lezoux ware in British Museum (E. B. Price) ; fragment of Romano-British painted ware in Guildhall. For part of the wall found here (at Barber Surgeons' Hall), see Arch. Rev. i, 360, and p. 63, above. Monument (Plan C, 29). — ' An elegantly-formed copper ewer ' is mentioned as having been found in 1833 near the Monument, in making the approach to New London Bridge. [Gent. Mag. (1833), 403]. In sinking a cesspool to the south of the Monument in the same year were discovered ' remains of an aqueduct running towards the River Thames southwards and communicating with a bath or tank northward.' It was built of tiles 16 to I 7 in. by I i-i in., "5