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 A HISTORY OF LONDON apart and supporting beams and joints overlaid with planking rabbeted and fastened again by broad-headed four-sided nails of iron ' ; supposed to be a Roman landing-place. Some of these objects are in the British Museum. [The site is just opposite Dowgate ; but there seems to be some doubt whether the structure is Roman.] [yourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc. XXV, 79.] On the site of the old Globe Theatre (Plan D, 40), various objects were found in 1892-3 : coins of Claudius (ob gives servatos), Trajan, Gallienus, and Tetricus ; part of a tessellated pavement ; castor and other pottery, and a flue-tile ; bracelets of bone and Kim- meridge shale ; miscellaneous implements in bone and other materials ; and part of a man's skeleton in armour [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xlviii, 344 ; xlix, 151, 309]. Pickle Herring Stairs and Stoney Lane, Southwark. — Pottery (Gaulish red ware and black Upchurch ware) found in excavating for the subway across to the Tower in 1888 [yourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xliv, 118]. St. George, Southwark (Plan D, 24). — ' Tessellated pavements and urns,' said to have been found in St. George's Fields _Gcnt. Mag. (1825), i, 148]. Pottery found in the churchyard in 1902 [Antiq. xxxviii, 162]. Jar of Castor ware from near the church, in British Museum (1906). See also Dover Street, High Street. St. Saviour, Southwark. — Considerable Roman remains have been found in the neighbourhood of this church, as for instance when the nave was destroyed in 1837-8, when much Gaulish pottery came to light (now in the British Museum). Brock's map marks on the south side of the church a mosaic pavement found 18 July 1820 ; also 'a footpath of red Roman' (Plan D, 33). In 1825 Gwilt found fragments of a pavement and coins of the lower Empire, also a copper coin of Antoninus Pius ' with Britannia on the reverse,' and a quantity of Roman bricks worked into the walls [ibid. (1825), ii, 633 ; Lindsay, Etym. of Southwark, 6 ; Taylor, Annals of St. Mary Overy, 15]. Pottery of various kinds, coins, and other miscel- laneous objects were discovered in 1832 at the north-east angle of the church (Plan D, 34). A few feet southward of these were observed ' fragments of burnt bricks and a large quantity of ashes, among which were found a ring and numerous coins, decidedly Roman ; but much defaced, apparently from the action of a fire.' The writer supposed that this was a funeral pile [ibid. (1832), i, 399; see also (1832), ii, 17, pi. 2]. In 1833 part of a tessellated pavement and some bronze utensils were found [ibid. (1833), i, 255]. The older writers generally agree in supposing that this must have been the site of a temple ; another subject of controversy is the existence of a ford or ferry at this point, continuing the line of a supposed road from Miles' Lane on the north side down towards Kent Street (Tabard Street) ; but see above, p. 31 [Gent. Mag. (1833), ii, 233]. In 1839, in digging for foundations of warehouses round the church (Plan D, 35), traces of walls were found, together with tesserae, frescoes, amphorae, domestic utensils, bronze/d/^ra^, clay lamps, Gaulish and other pottery, and coins of Nero, Vespasian, and Scverus _Arch. xxix, 148 ; Gent. Mag. (1840), i, 192]. In 1882 Gaulish and other pottery and coins of Nero, Victorinus, and Constantine were found on the west side of the church (Plan D, 35) [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxviii, 332] ; and in 1884 fragments of glass, bronze fibulae, bone needles, Gaulish and other pottery, and coins of Trajan and Carausius [ibid, xli, 91]. In the British Museum, fragments of early first-century Gaulish pottery, and a bowl with slip decoration ; also fragments with the following potters' stamps : Censor (2), Felix, Masculus, Modestus (2), Monticus, Murranus, Nestor, Niger, Passienus (2), Paullus (2), Pontius, Quartus, Rufinus, Sabinus, Severus (2), Vitalis (2) : all Rutenian of the ist century ; Albucianus, Burdo, Mamilianus, and Sabinianus (2nd century, the last two German). These were mostly found in 1837-8. Also a lamp with design of a donkey turning a mill [Illus. Rom. Land. pi. 30, fig. 4]. St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark, site of (Plan D, 9, 10). — This hospital originally stood on the site of the present S.E. Railway, London Bridge Station. Fragments of Gaulish and plain pottery were found near the gates (Plan D, 10) in 1832 [Gmt. Mag. (1832), ii, 17, pi. 2 ; f« also 1833, i, 401, and Taylor, Annals of St. Mary Overy, p. 15, pi. i, fig. 4]. In 1840 a Roman pavement was found on the south side (Plan D, 9), with walls and passages, all built on piles. To the north were found coins of Claudius, Domitian, Valens, and Gratian, a clay lamp, and pottery ; and on the pavement itself were picked up coins of the Constan- tines [Arch, xxix, 148, pi. 18 ; Gent. Mag. (1840), i, 191 ; Lindsay, Etym. of Southwark^ 5 ; sketch of the wall at the Society of Antiquaries]. Bowl of Lezoux ware in British Museum, with stamp of potter Paterclinus [Cat. Lond. Antiq. 26, No. 1 04]. St. Thomas's Church, Southwark (Plan D, 8). — Coins of Titus and Allectus found in 1882 [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxviii, 205]. 140