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 ROMANO-BRITISH LONDON Near the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, a leaden coffin was found in 1 8 1 2, the lid ornamented with bead-and-reel patterns forming five compartments, in two of which were figures of Minerva, in another, scallop-shells ; it contained bones, but was much decayed. It was purchased by Mr. Samuel White of Charlton, Dorset ^Arch. xvii, 333 ; cf. Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), xix, 207 ; and see above, p. 20]. Roman lamp with potter's mark strobili, found in 1833-4 near the bridge over the Surrey Canal [Gent. Mag. (1834), i, 543]. In the British Museum a fragment of Gaulish pottery with stamp of Aventinus (Roach Smith). Kent Street. — See Tabard Street. King Street. — See Newcomen Street. King's Head Yard. — See High Street. Lambeth. — Bone hairpin found on site of new public baths in 1899, at a depth of 9 ft. ; it was ornamented with a crown at the head [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, (new ser.), v, 93]. Roman pottery was found near Vauxhall Gardens in 1824, which was supposed to support the view that there was a camp here (of which indeed no remains exist); however it is not far from the probable line of the road crossing the Thames at Westminster [Gent. Mag. (1825), i, 194, and see ibid, 148]. Long Lane, Southwark (Plan D, 16). — Fragments of Gaulish and German pottery in British Museum, with stamps of Cocuro, Dagomarus, Regalis, and Mercator. Maze Pond, Southwark (Plan D, 6). — Small green glass bottle found 1875 [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxi, 320]. Mill Lane. — See Battle Bridge Lane. Mint Street, Southwark (Plan D, 25). — Finds of pottery in 1887, including a Gaulish vase with stamp domitvs f, and part of a mortarium ; also two clay water pipes, and a series of coins of Nero, Vespasian, Domitian, Antoninus Pius, Commodus, and Constantine [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xliii, 374]. Mitre Street, Southwark. — Clay water pipe in Guildhall Museum [Cat. 120]. New Street, Southwark. — Gaulish pottery in Guildhall [Cat. 435, 585]. Newcomen Street, formerly King Street, Southwark (Plan D, 14). — Roman lamp reported in 1872 [Arch. Journ. xxx, 96]. Various objects found in 1890, at a depth of 14 ft. including coins from M. Aurelius to Constantine, fragments of Gaulish and other pottery, a scored flue- tile, a fibula with the figure of an eagle in dark blue enamel, a bronze hairpin, and some iridescent glass [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xlvi, 158]. Pair of sandals, ' possibly Roman,' found near Snow's Fields (Plan D, 15) in 1819 [Soc. Antiq. MS. Min. xxxiv, 279], and cinerary urns with burnt bones, Castor ware and other pottery, glass and lamps, dug up in the same year by Mr. Gwilt [Taylor, Annals of St. Mary Overy, 10 ; Lindsay, Etym. of Southwark, 5, and plate; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxix, 91]. Newington Road. — Roman road discovered in 1824 (cf. p. 39) and coins [Allen, Hist, of Land, i, 37]. In constructing the tramway from Clapham to Blackheath in 1874, some eight or ten wooden pipes were found near St. Mary's Church. They were formed out of elm trunks, and were 5 ft. or 6 ft. long ; said to be Roman ^^ [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxi, 210]. Park Street, Southwark. — Dugdale says, 'Where, besides divers Roman coins, that are still frequently digged up, I myself, in the year 1658, saw in those fields (on the back side of Winchester House) called Southwark Park (Plan D, 36), upon the sinking of divers cellars for some new buildings, at about two feet below the present level of the ground, a Roman pavement made of bricks not above an inch and a half square, and adjoining to it a more curious piece of the like small bricks, in length about 10 feet and in breadth 5, wrought in various colours ; and in the midst thereof, betwixt certain borders in the fashion of wreathed columns, the form of a serpent very lively expressed in that kind of Mosaic work ' [Gwilt in Gent. Mag. (18 1 5), i, 225]. Taylor records the discovery in 1786 of a brown glazed jug containing Roman coins** (Plan D, 42), and in 1806 of a flue-tile inscribed Px Tx [Annals of St. Mary Over) p. 10, pi. I, fig. 3 ; see also Brock's map, which places the find of tiles farther to the south, near Castle Street (q.v.)]. These discoveries were made in the part now covered by Barclay and Perkins' Brewery, where was found in 1825 a human skeleton (Plan D, 42) ; between the legs, a jar with coins, mostly of the lower Empire [Gent. Mag. (1825), ii, 633]. Between the Brewery and the South-Eastern Railway (Plan D, 41), an iron dagger, with handle and blade in one, was found in 1866 [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxii, 305]. Timber, nails, and ironwork found in December, 1868, at the corner of Clink Street (Plan D, 39), from 'an ancient wooden structure formed of stout piles set about two feet " See Essex Naturalist, July 1903, p. 61 ; July 1904, p. 272 ; Arch. Iv, 422. '* The jug appears to be mediaeval, and no details of the coins are given, possibly they are not Roman. 139