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ROMANO-BRITISH LONDON (material not stated) at about the same spot in 1855 [yourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, ix 74- xii 258] ; a cinerary urn with bones and other pottery at Holborn Circus in 1869 [ibid, xxvi, 373. See also Land, and Midd. Arch. Sac. Trans, iii, 562 ; Arch. Rev. i, 278]. In the Guildhall Museum a clay lamp, glass vessels, and ten pieces of plain pottery, from the Viaduct ; in Mr. Ransom's collection at Hitchin, Romano-British pottery from the same site. See also Farringdon Street, Shoe Lane. Holiday Yard. — See Ludgate Square. Honey Lane. — Finds recorded when excavating for the erection of the City of London School in Honey Lane Market, on the site of AUhallows' Church (Plan C, 171), in 1836, included coins of Trajan, Decius, and Allectus, various bronze vessels, and a tripod [Arch, xxvii, 149 ; Gent. Mag. (1836), i, 135, 369 ; Rom. Brit. Rem. 193, 195]. Also a pavement of red and yellow tesserae (Plan C, 172), a mortarium with name albinvs, Gaulish pottery, and fragments of wall- painting _Lond. and Midd. Arch. Soc. Trans, ii, 68. See also Arch. Rev. i, 278]. Hosier Lane. — Leaden coffin containing bones found in 1749 (see p. 19) [Soc. Antiq, MS. Min. vi, I]. HouNDSDiTCH (Plan C, 18-22). — In 1763 a tower was standing here (Plan C, 18), which was then sketched by Gough. It was square, solid at the bottom, and hollow in the centre, where was probably a small chamber with loop-holes [lllus. Rom. Land. 16]. It is, however, very doubt- ful if it was Roman ; see p. 54. In 1 880- 1 fragments of architecture and sculpture and inscribed stones were found built up in a mass of masonry projecting from the wall, which proved to be a bastion built up against, but not bonded into it, and of later date. At the same time a piece of the wall itself was un- covered and removed, at the back of No. 31, Houndsditch, 70 ft. long and iifft. high (Dec. 1880). The bastion lay to the north-east of the site (Plan C, 19, 20). The sculptures, which had thus been utilized as building material, include an Attic base of a column, 1 1 in. high, and part of a column worked all over in a lozenge pattern, the stone being a hard dark- blue limestone, the shaft I ft. 6 in. high, and 9 in. thick. Possibly the two belonged together [yourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxvii, 86 ; xxxviii, 132 ; see p. 54 and fig. 16]. Built into the wall here were also the following inscriptions : M (i) Found in Houndsditch, 1880 : liv The last word is co[niunx). [Arch. Jotirn. TVS. xxxviii, 289; xlii, 156; Ephem. Epigr. vi.ANL vii, 277, No. 822.] ca.strt firJACO (2-5) Found at the corner of Castle Street in 1884 : (2) AVI [Dis Manibus'] Avi[dius A]ntio[chus anno']r[um) Ixx. ntio r.lxx Dimensions, i ft. by 8^ in. (3) 1-7/ s DO (4) CANDiDi Dimensions, i ft. 6 in. by I ft. 6 in. (5) ET MEMORIA et memoria[e' ELIAE NVMIDI ...eliae Numidi[ae' NTISSIMA. FEMI pi]entissima femi[na^ RELIQVA CAV reliqua cau[sa ? All four preserved outside Guildhall Museum, but not in catalogue [Arch, yourn. xlii, 155 ; Ephem. Epigr. vii, 277, Nos. 818-21]. A stone coffin (see p. 16) and base of bastion from the wall found in Castle Street (Goring Street ; Plan C, 21) in 1884 are also in the Guildhall [Arch. Iii, 613 ; Antiq. x, 134]. Another piece of the wall was found on the south side of Houndsditch (Plan C, 22) in 1906, over 16 ft. high [Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), xxi, 229 ; Arch. Ix, 187 ; see also p. 55]. Among smaller finds here may be noted an ampulla of clay with patterns painted in white, reported in 1864 [Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), ii, 431], and fragments of Gaulish pottery in British Museum with stamps of Lezoux potters (Cinnamus and Titurus). HuGGiN Lane, Wood Street (Plan C, 170). — Fragments of pavement found 1851, mostly of white tesserae [Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. i), ii, 184]. See also Wood Street. Idol Lane. — Clay lamp [Cat. 105] and glass vessel [Cat. 144] in Guildhall [5« also Arch. Rev. , 278]. 105 14