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A HISTORY OF LONDON CuLLUM Street, Fenchurch Street. — Fragment of Gaulish pottery in British Museum with figures ; in the Guildhall, a first-century bowl of form 29 with stamp of mvrrani [Cat. 441]. See also Fenchurch Street. DowGATE Hill (Plan C, 128, 153). — Remains of a large edifice and pavement discovered after the Great Fire [Archer, Vestiges of Old Lotidon, 11 ; Allen, Hist. Land, iii, 508 ; Wren, Parentalia, 265]. In 1902 two coins found 'of exceptional interest' ; a silver coin of Domitian, and a bronze of Trajan ; on the reverse of each a soldier _Antiq. xxxviii, 355]. For other small finds see Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. i), ii, 93 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxv, 273 ; Soc. Antiq. MS. Min. xxxvii, 376 (enamelled gold brooch) ; also various objects in Guildhall, including ' spoons, lamps, and a Gaulish bowl, with designs in medallions and panels Cat. 423]. In the British Museum, the top of a bronze inkstand. Drapers' Hall. — Plain vase in Guildhall {Cat. 26] ; see also Arch. Rev. i, 276]. DucKSFOOT Lane, Upper Thames Street (Plan C, 139). — Fragments of flue-tiles discovered in 1 846, which appear to have been used for the pillars of a hypocaust ['Journ. Brit. Arch, Assoc. ii, 340]. Duke Street (Plan C, 16-18). — Architectural fragments in Guildhall [Cat. p. 106, No. 13]. A large part of the base of the Roman wall laid bare in 1887, also the base of a bastion of later work, which may be that noted by Maitland in 1753 [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xliii, 203 ; of. Maitland, Hist, of Land, i, 31 ; see also p. 53]. See also Houndsditch. Dunster Court. — See Mincing Lane. Eastcheap. — A road (' Watling Street ') was uncovered about 1824-31 in making a sewer across the Gracechurch Street end of Great Eastcheap (Plan C, 31), 3 ft. below the present pave- ment ; it was 16 ft. wide and 7 ft. 6 in. thick, of gravel concrete on a bed of loam, with supporting walls of ragstone and tiles [Arch, xxv, 6o2 ; Gent. Mag. (1833), ii, 421 ; Herbert, Hist, of St. Michael, Crooked Lane, 20 ; a section is given in Fig. 11, p. 38]. This road, however, does not lie in the line of the supposed road from Newgate to the river, which runs to the south [see p. 34). On the other side of Gracechurch Street, near Crooked Lane, a raised bank of gravel was also noted, and at the north-east corner of this street (Plan C, 72) was found a wall of ragstone 2 ft. thick, with a double course of white-clay tiles, in which were a flue-tile with four apertures and two coins of Claudius. Mr. Kempe also saw in 1 83 1 a massive architectural fragment, which he took to be the architrave of some building, piers and arches of chalk, a floor of coarse tesserae, and another of concrete stuccoed over and painted red (Plan C, 69). Among finds he mentions amphorae and fragments of pottery, and coins of Antonine, Constantine, and Victorinus ; mingled with these remains were wood ashes and powdered fragments of tiles. A little to the north were two wells. On the south side of the street mortaria and a pestle were found [Arch, xxiv, 191 ; Gent. Mag. (1836), i, 135 ; Rom. Brit. Rem. i, 191]. Coins in this locality are said to be rare, but two bronzes of Trajan are reported in 1832 [Gent. Mag. (1832), ii, 516]. In 1833 a report speaks of discoveries at the south-east corner of Great Eastcheap (Plan C, 70) : the lower part of Roman walls of flint, much Gaulish pottery and coarser ware, coins of Claudius, and a well steined with squared chalk, the top I oft. below street level [Gent. Mag. (1833), i, 69; ii, 421 fF.]. Another wall is mentioned in 1834, about 4 ft. north of the north wall of the Roman road {see above) ; it was of the usual type, 3 ft. thick, receding upwards, as if supporting some structure. Coins of Vespasian were found here, also one of Julia Augusta [ibid. (1834), i, 932 ; see also Soc. Antiq. MS. Min. xxxvi, 337, 401]. Other small finds in 1834 near the end of Cannon Street [Gent. Mag. (1834), ii, 524]. In Little Eastcheap in 1836 traces of Roman work were noted in the foundations of the church of St. Andrew Hubbard (destroyed in the fire ; Plan C, 15) and fragments of pottery were found [Gent. Mag. (1836), i, 135 ; Rom. Brit. Rem. i, 193]. Roach Smith says foundations of houses were found all along the street (Plan C, ll) at 12 ft. to 20 ft., and mentions a head of a Bacchante in green glass found there [Arch, xxiv, 145 ; cf. the example from Leadenhall Street, p. 107]. Part of a breast-plate of chain-mail was reported in 1845 from this street [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, i, 142 ; viii, 355]. In 1884-5 a ' cantharus ' of red ware, 15 in. high, an amphora, and a Gaulish bowl stamped of mom were exhibited to the Arch. Association [fjourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xl, 116; xli, 96]. In the British Museum a bronze brooch (Roach Smith) and fragrrents of Gaulish pottery with stamps of Bassus, Carillus, Ingenuus, Lucceius, Modestus, Severus, Niger, Vitalis (all Rutenian of ist century), Crucuro, Errimus, Tituro, and Vassilius. In the Guildhall, specimens of Romano-British pottery. See also Cannon Street, Clement's Lane, Crooked Lane, Gracechurch Street, King William Street, London Bridge, St. Michael Crooked Lane, and Thames Street. 100