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 A HISTORY OF LONDON a dolphin [Cat. 55], and a Gaulish bowl with stamp of. patric [Cat. 486] ; Upchurch pottery and a black-glazed lamp in Mr. Hilton Price's collection, and fragment of bowl (form 29) in the Bethnal Green Museum. Token-house Yard (Plan C, 108). — General Pitt-Rivers (then Col. Lane- Fox) in 1867 reported the finding of piles connected by ' camp-sheathing ' [? part of the embankment of the Walbrook] [Anthrop. Rev. v (1867), Ixxvi], He does not say whether there is evidence of these being Roman. Among small finds are a bronze lamp-trimmer with chain and a folding iron scale- beam (1868), a hooked implement with iron termination, thought to be a boat-hook (1865 ; cf. p. 120), perforated clay weights (cf. p. 122) ; and a bronze censer plated with silver wrought in two halves [Land, and Midd. Arch. Trans, iii, 219 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxix, 70, 87 ; xxviii, 172 ; xxxvi, 243, 360]. Mr. F. W. Reader notes that a large number of Roman objects have been produced from this locality, but that the records are very scanty. He himself some years ago obtained two or three sacks full of Gaulish and other pottery, and other objects [See also Arch. Rev. i, 359]. Gaulish pottery in British Museum (stamps of Januarius and Tituro), also a fragment with appliquk relief, a fragment of Arretine ware, and specimens of German and various local (Romano-British) wares. In thi Guildhall, Gaulish and Upchurch ware, including a Rutenian bowl of form 29 with figures in panels [Cat. 369, 411, 448, 458], a piece of late ware with stamped pattern [Cat. 535], two clay lamps, a finger-ring, and miscellaneous implements {Jibulae^ knives, &c.). In Mr. Hilton Price's collection, an iron stylus. In 1889 the bed of the Walbrook was reached hereabouts, at a depth of 20 ft., and a few coins of the early Empire and pieces of pottery were found [Arch. Rev. iv, 292]. The Tower. — In 1777, in digging the foundations of the Board of Ordnance Office (Plan C, i) an ingot of silver and three gold coins were found. The ingot, now in the British Museum, is EX OF FL in the form of a double wedge weighing i lb., and is inscribed ex of(ficina)F/(avi) & & o > HONOR II -^ ^ J J Honorini ; the coins are, one of Honorius, the other two of Arcadius, the types and inscrip)- tions being similar (obv. head of Emperor with dn honorivs (or arcadivs) pf avg ; rev. the Emperor trampling on a captive, with laharum and figure of Victory, inscribed victoria avggg [Gough, Camden (1806), ii, 92 ; Malcolm, Lond. Rediv. iii, 519 ; Allen, Hist, of London, i, 26; Hughson, Hist, of Lond. i, 34 ; Arch, v, 291 fF., pi. 25 ; Gent. Mag. (1785), 332, (1835), i, 491 ; Illus. Rom. Lond. 31 ; Wright, Celt, Roman, and Saxon, 269 ; Corp. Inscr. Latin, vii, 1196; Westdeutsche Zeitschr. x, p. 41 1, pi. 6, No. 8 ; Willers, Numis. Kliinigkeiten, 48, 53, pi. 12. Not far away was found a stone inscribed It was 2 ft. 8 in. by 2 ft. 4 in. in size, and is now lost [Gough, Camden (1806), ii, 92 ; Malcolm, Lond. Rediv. iii, 519; Illus. Roman Lond. 25, pi. 22; Coll. Antiq. i, 140 ; Gent. Mag. (1785), 332 ; Corp. Inscr. Latin, vii, 32]. Coins reported in 1825 on site of new Armoury (Plan C, 2), and a bronze of Constantine minted at Treves as found in the Tower Ditch in 1859 [Soc. Antiq. MS. Min. XXXV, 176 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xv, 274]. In 1 856 a clay lamp, with subject of three slaves carrying fasces (now in British Museum), and coins of Gordian III, Maxentius, and Constantine were found by the White Tower [fourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xiii, 235]. Pottery in British Museum (stamps of Aestivus and Sedatus) ; pieces of Upchurch ware in Guildhall [Cat. 377, 400]. A fragment of the Roman Wall is to be seen on the east side of the White Tower (Plan C, 1) [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxvi, 464; Gent. Mag. (1835), i, 491]. In 1879 ^ portion of a wall in a south-easterly line with the City Wall was found adjoining the Wardrobe Tower (Plan C, 2), the Roman base of which is left [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxvii, 280 ; xxxviii, 127 fF. ; Antiq. xii, 99 ; see also Arch. Ix, 239]. Near the Cold Harbour Tower, on the south-west of the White Tower (Plan C, 3), Roman remains, including masonry, tiles, and part of a hypocaust flue, were found in 1899 [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, (new ser.) v, 351 ; vi, 26 fF. ; Antiq. xxv, 229. See also p. 49 above]. Tower Hill. — In Postern Row (Plan C, 3), a considerable portion of the Roman Wall was exposed to view up to 1852, reaching to a height of 25 ft. ; it still exists, but is now completely hidden behind buildings [Archer, Vestiges of Old Lond. p. 4, pi. 2 ; Illus. Rom. Lond. p. 15, pi. 2 ; Coll. Antiq. iii, 255; Gent. Mag. (1843), i, 607 ; Hartridge, Coll. Newsp. Cuttings, Old Lond. i, 280 ; also p. 50 above]. Here also were found in 1852, on the east side of the Wall, 130 Dts Dis manIb Manib[us T LICINI T. Licini ascaiJ Ascani- VS. F us fiilius)