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 mutilated. Th e monument is now in the British Coll. Antiq. i, 125; Arch. Journ. i, "5 902), P- 353; Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 0, i, 7 ROMANO-BRITISH LONDON Below is the head of a soldier Museum [///«j. Rom. Lond. 26, No. 7 ; Midd. Arch. Soc. Trans, (new ser. i, Inscr. Latin, vii, 24 ; see above, p. 27]. Other small finds made at the same time include a coin of Trajan and one of the time of Constantine, with vrbs roma and the wolf suckling the twins, and fragments of Gaulish pottery [Gent. Mag. (1843), i, 636 ; Rom. Brit. Rem. i, 199]. Post Office. — See St. Martin's-le-Grand. Postern Row, Tower Hill. — See Tower Hill. Poultry. — On the site of the Union Bank in St. Mildred's Court (Plan C, 118), about 1864, were found knives, nails, and a horse-bit [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxv, 167]. On the same site, two or three years afterwards, part of a pavement was found at about 18 ft. below the surface ; in the centre, a vase in coloured tesserae^ with border of scrolls and guilloche pattern [Morgan, Rom. Brit. Mosaic Pavements, 193]. Near this were a mortarium with stamp ALBINVS, pottery, and bronze fibulae (one with blue enamel is said to be in Guildhall Museum [not in catalogue]) [Lond. and Midd. Arch. Soc. Trans, iii, 217 ; lllus. Lond. News, 2 March, 1867, p. 219]. Roman shoes from a depth of 28 ft. were exhibited to the Archaeological Institute in 1875 [from the site of St. Mildred's Church (Plan C, 119); Arch. Journ. xxxii, 329], and in the same year a bronze fibula of a common type, with chain attached, was found 'on the banks of the Walbrook, about 30ft. beneath the level of the Poultry, near other remains, [Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), vi, 445]. Vase of Lezoux ware with figures in 'free style' in British Museum (form 37 ; from St. Mildred's Court ; acquired from Rev. W. S. Simpson) ; also a jar of ' Rhenish ' black ware. In Guildhall Museum, a small gold figure of a nude man, attached to a pin [Cat. I ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxx, 80], a fragment of Gaulish pottery, a steelyard, &c. A silver spoon in Mayhew Collection [Cat. No. 43]. A bronze statuette of Hercules 5 in. high, found at a depth of 21 ft. in Grocers' Hall Court, with pottery, is advertised in a recent catalogue of James Tregaskis of High Holborn. Princes Street. — Wooden piles found in this street (Plan C, 116) appear to belong to the ancient embankment of the Walbrook. Pottery and various small bronze utensils were found in 1834—6, the latter including a lamp with crescent-shaped handle, similar to one found in Cannon Street [Arch, xxvii, 143 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, viii, 57, pi. 13, fig. 6 ; cf. p. 95]. Gaulish pottery in British Museum (stamps of Celsus and Luppa) and one German fragment (stamp of Victorinus) ; also an iron sharpening-instrument with bronze handle in the form of a horse's head springing from a calyx [lllus. Rom. Lond. 141 ; Cat. Lond. Antiq. p. 74, No. 334]. See also Bank of England, Grocers' Hall. Printing House Square (Plan C, 59). — A portion of the Roman wall found under the Times Office in 1849 [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, v, 155 ; see p. 69 above]. Pudding Lane (Plan C, 28). — A wall of tiles and ragstone and a hypocaust partially exposed in 1836-41 [Arch, xxix, 154, pi. 18]. Pottery (unimportant) in British Museum and Guildhall. See also Monument Street. Queen Street. — The principal find here is the fine bronze figure of an archer (Fig. 52), now in the British Museum, found in July, 1842, near Watling Street (Plan C, 162), hard by a wall of tiles. ' Its height is 1 1 in. ; the bow and arrow are wanting, but the figure is perfect and well pre- served, the eyes of silver.' In a fuller description Roach Smith says : — ' The bow and arrow were probably of richer metal than the figure itself, but no vestiges of them were discovered. The aperture for the bow is seen in the closed left hand which held it, and the bent fingers of the right appear in the act of drawing the arrow to its full extent. . . . The eyes are of silver, with the pupils open ; the hair disposed in graceful curls on the head, as well as on the chin and upper lip. The left hand, which grasped the bow and sustained the arrow, is so placed as to bring the latter to a level with the eye ; and the steadfast look and determined expression of the whole face are much heightened by the silver eyes.' This figure must rank among the finest of the bronzes of the Roman period, if it is not actually of earlier date, and to be regarded as purely Greek work. It is, at all events, full of the Greek spirit, admirable in conception and execution, and worthy to be compared with the fine figure of Herakles found in Cumberland and now in the same collection. Coins of Carausius and Allectus were also found here [Arch, xxx, 543, pi. 22 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxiv, 75 ; lllus. Rom. Lond. pi. 20, p. 71 ; Fairholt, Miscell. Graphica, pi. 8]. E. B. Price, with reference to excavations further south at the same time, mentions finds of fresco painting, ' chiefly red and yellow, but remarkably brilliant, some portion in blue or bright slate colour ; ' also ' cinerary urns of a very rude style of art,' one containing bones ; pottery of various kinds ; a coin of Nero, and ' an 119
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