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 A HISTORY OF LONDON A general resemblance will be noticed between the brooch from St. Mary-at-Hill and one from a hoard of pewter ornaments found in Cheapside nearly opposite Bow Church in 1838.'° They are now in the Guildhall Museum, and specimens are here illustrated (fig. 17) of rings, brooches, and beads. The brooch on the left has the same number of lobes, inclosing bosses that represent the pearl settings of the gold specimen, and a larger boss in the centre in place of a precious stone. The brooch on the right is suggestive of the keystone pattern familiar from Kentish graves of the sixth and seventh centuries, but is evidently contemporary, and other items point to the eleventh century. The ring on the right recalls one of gold found with coins of Edward the Confessor, Harold, and William I at Soberton, Hampshire,'"' and now in the British Museum ; while the beads correspond to gold and silver specimens of the Viking period found in Sweden and Norway.""' Other brooches of lead and pewter have been found in the City, and the best is illustrated on the coloured plate (fig. 3). It was found in Bird in Hand Court, Cheapside (on the south side, west of Bucklersbury) in 1844, Fig. I 7. — Specimens of Pewter Jewellery found in Cheapside (J) and was originally gilt. On the back are rings placed irregularly, and the front consists of a broad pearled border inclosing a raised centre on which is a lion looking backward, with several dots in the field. The whole is roughly executed, but a broad pearled border occurs on a large brooch from Canterbury, with the centre modelled after a coin of the late tenth cen- tury.'°° Another pattern, perhaps borrowed from the coinage, is seen on a lead brooch in the Roach Smith Collection {Catalogue No. 558) found in Cloak Lane, 1846. The characters, though meaningless and imperfect, are arranged in rows recalHng the reverse of such coins as that of Ecgbert (fig. 18). Other small circular brooches, in bronze or base silver, need only be referred to here ; they bear representations of a lion and a horseman, both these " Kelsey and San tie, Description of City Sewers, quoted in j4rch. Ix, 70. "• Jrch. Journ. viii, 100 (fig.)- ""> Montelius, Antiquites Suedoises, 160-1 ; Rygh, ^'orske OUsager, figs. 692-6 (late ninth cent.). "" Proc. Soc. Jntij. xix, 210 ; F.C.H. Herts, i, 260 (Boxmoor). Both sides of the London specimen are figured in Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, ii, 313. One in the Cheapside hoard has a similar border. 160