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 A HISTORY OF LONDON two clay lamps, one with Serapis and Cerberus, the other with pieces of gladiators' armour [Cat. 29 and 61 ? ; some of these were found previous to 1859 ; see Loud, and Midd. Arch. Soc. Trans, i, 353]. Winchester House. — See Old Broad Street, Wood Street (Plan C, 169). — Pavements of tesserae found in 1843 ^"^ 1848 [Proc. Soc. Ant'iq, (Ser. i), ii, 184 ; Price, Descr. Rom. Tess. Pavement in Bucklershury, 23 ; Morgan, Rom.-Brlt. Mosaic Pavements, 185 ; see also Huggin Lane]. Fragments of Gaulish pottery and bronze coins found under the foundations of the old Cross Keys Inn in 1865 _Lond. and Midd. Arch. Soc. Trans, iii, 339]. Pottery in British Museum, with stamps of Gaulish potters: Frontinus, Silvius, Virtus, and Vitalis of first century ; Cambus, Burdo, Tituro, of second (mostly from Roach Smith) ; also fra2;ments of painted ware and late stamped ware from north-east Gaul, and a tile inscribed pp . BR . lon [see p. 90). Stow (ed. 1633, p. 308) says that Roman bricks were found in St. Alban's church when pulled down in 1632. Wormwood Street. — Part of mortarium found 1846 lllus. Rom. Lond. 149. See also for the wall here p. 56 and Plan C, 25]. VAGUE LOCALITIES Numerous finds have been reported from time to time without any special indication of locality further than ' City of London.' This is the case with the majority of the objects in the British Museum and Guildhall, as for instance, the extensive collection of fragments of pottery in the former obtained from Roach Smith and E. B. Price ; to give anything like a complete list of such finds would be of course impossible in the present article ; but a few of the more interesting objects may be briefly noted. Those detailed below have been mainly exhibited to the Archaeological Associa- tion at different times. 1853. From the city sewers, specimens of pottery, with the stamps pvgnim and BALBInvs, and an amphora-handle stamped lvtro yourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, ix, 75], 1854. Fragment of Gaulish ware with stamp notvs [ibid, x, iii]. 1864. Bronze statuette of Mars with cock's head on helmet, described as 'early Etruscan' [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xx, 358]. 1871. Iron horse's bit [ibid, xxvii, 523]. 1872. A set of bronze instruments, including a pair of tweezers and ear-pick fastened together, a so-called clavis trochi (variously explained as a stick for a hoop, an ash-rake, and an emblem of Ceres), also an iron razor and nail file, and two bone combs [ibid, xxix, 69]. 1873. Iron snaffle-bit, part of bronze bit, iron stirrup and chain, part of a bronze door- handle [ibid, xxix, 86]. Iron nail from horse-shoe, netting-needle, bone and bronze knife- handles, bronze two-pronged fork, and comb formed from deer's antler [ibid, xxix, 188]. Four iron knives, portions of balances and weights, bronze hairpins and fibulae, an ear-pick, pair of tweezers, and another implement fastened together [ibid, xxix, 191] ; a set of iron and bronze locks and keys, and sundry iron implements [ibid, xxix, 20I, 205, 305]. Part of a snake in terra-cotta, clay lamp with Victory standing on a gloi^e holding wreath and palm- branch, mould for Christian lamp, surgical and other implen:ents of bronze and iron [ibid, xxix, 308, ^25]. Bone counter, fibula, calathus full ot fruit, handle of vase, and lamp with two nczzles, all of bronze [ibid, xxx, 72, 80]. 1875. Bronze statiette of Cupid [ibid, xxxi, 209]. 1882. Jar of Castor wa.'e ; fragments of Gaulish bowl ; two mediUions from Gaulish vase, representing a soldier and Diana seated ; ivory needle o.' bodkin. Fragments of two large Gaulish bowls, stamped lvtaivsf and paternvs, of a bowl of form 27 stamped giamilliof, of an ornamented bowl with figures of T.'itons, 61. — Bronze Model of Prow of Galley sea-horses, Cupid playing on pipes, and of (British Museum) (J) another with Victory ; fragment stamped