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 A HISTORY OF LONDON of a hand-mill, Gaulish, Upchurch, and other pottery, with shells, and other remains. A quantity of charred wood and ashes was found 1 6 ft. below the surface ; this, taken in conjunction with similar traces in Walbrook, Lombard Street, and Eastcheap, has been supposed to indicate the debris of the sack of the city by Boudicca Journ. Brit. Arch. Jssoc, x, 195 ; see Gough, Camden, ii, 15 ; Arch, viii, 132 ; xxiv, 192].^^ See also Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, vii, 170 ; xvii, 325. Scots Yard. — See Bush Lane. Seacoal Lane. — See Fleet Lane. Seething Lane (Plan C, 5). — In 1884 a fine bronze arm was found at the bottom of a well, belonging to a male figure of heroic size, and having apparently held some object ^Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), x, 91 ; Guildhall Mus. Cat. 19]. Tessellated pavements were recorded in 1839-41, near St. Olave's Church and throughout the street _Arch. xxix, 154]. In the British Museum some fragments of Gaulish pottery. Sermon Lane. — In the Guildhall Museum a spindle-whorl {Cat. 182] and Roman vase [Cat. 252]. An iron key, 7 J in. in length, reported in 1874 [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxx, 200]. Shoe Lane. — Fragments of Roman pottery discovered in 1843 ^^ '^^e south end of the street, including Gaulish ware with the stamps OF patrici and pecvliaris ; these two are now in the British Museum [E. B. Price in Gent. Mag. (1843), ii, 629 ; Rom. Brit. Rem. i, 204]. Size Lane, Budge Row (Plan C, 130(7). — In the Guildhall, a bowl of yellow and red 'marbled' ware [Cat. 151], made at La Graufesenque in the first century. A pavement said to have been found here. Skinner Street, Bishopsgate. — Vase of ornamented red ware in Guildhall Museum [Cat. 419] ; probably German ware from Rheinzabern. A vase of Lezoux ware (form 37), with figures in British Museum. Smithfield Market. — Pottery found in 1865-6, including cinerary urns with ashes and charred bones, and mortaria [Lond. and Midd. Arch. Trans, iii, 102, 195 ; Illus. Lond. News, 24 Feb. 1866, p. 191, 2 March 1867 ; above, p. 7] ; also a ' feeding bottle,''^ with micaceous surface [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxvi, 112, pi. 9, fig. 3 ; in Brit. Mus. ?] ; a mould for a thyrsus, and glass vessels [ibid, xxvii, 523, pi. 27]. Numerous pieces of pottery in Guildhall Museum, plain and Gaulish ware; also a glass vessel [Cat. 19]. In the British Museum a 'feeding bottle' (probably the one mentioned above), and other plain wares (1865), also a silver finger-ring ending in serpents' heads, found in 1838 [Cat, of Rings, 1142]. In the Bethnal Green Museum, a mortarium with stamp of AI.BINVS. In 1843 an urn of dark grey ware was found at the entrance of Cloth Fair, containing burnt bones and fragments of charcoal, supposed to be the remains of a child or youth [Gent. Mag. (1843), '. 520 ; above, p. 7]. In 1867 a Roman cemetery came to light at the north-west corner of Smithfield, near West Street, and a wooden coffin was found containing a skeleton, with a jar of Upchurch ware, ' a patera, ampulla, mortarium,' and other common pottery. The late date of the burial is indicated by the presence of a coin of Gratian (375-83) with a soldier bearing the Christian labarum [Lond. and Midd. Arch. Soc. Trans, iii, 37 ; see above, p. 23]. Snow Hill. — Pottery in Guildhall Museum ; Castor, Upchurch, and Gaulish wares ; among the latter one with stamp sacero • M, and another, found in 1865, with stamp timtiriof [see Cat. 333. 380- 453> 479, 505, 5721- St aining Lane. — Fragment of Gaulish pottery found under Haberdashers' Hall in 1854 [Arch. "Journ. xi, 1 80] ; perhaps the same as one with celsinvs f in Bethnal Green Museum. Steelyard. — See Thames Street, Upper. Suffolk Lane (Plan C, 140). — A large stone mortar found in 1848 [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, vii, 85] ; in the same year, ' among the dlbris of a Roman villa,' a fragment of mural painting representing a youthful winged head, the colours described as fresh and the design ' in good taste.' Said to be then in the possession of Mr. F. Blunt, of Streatham [ibid, iv, 388 ; Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. i), ii, 19]. Part of a pavement from this site was exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries in 1855 [Proc. (Ser. i), iii, 194]. Plain pottery found in 1869 [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxvi, 81]. Gaulish bowl of form 27 in British Museum, with stamp of the Rutenian potter Secundus (from E. B. Price). At the south-east corner of the street were remains of walls [Arch, xl, 48; Plan C, 6i ; and see p. 71]. Sun Street, Bishopsgate. — Vase in Guildhall [Cat. 161]. ^' In both the instances recorded above the site is merely described as ' St. Thomas Apostle,' without indication as to whether Great or Little St. Thomas is intended, but probably it is the former. The latter street was merged in Cannon Street about 1854. " The writer considers that the position of the ' handle ' on the ' dexter side' indicates that it was intended for use in the left hand. He compares an example from Wilderspool, Lanes. 126