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A HISTORY OF LONDON Ivy Lane. — Glass vessel [Cat. 145] and vase of New Forest ware [Cat. 364] in Guildhall ; two pieces of pottery in British Museum (one of late stamped ware from north-east Gaul). [See also for pottery-finds, Lond. and Midd. Arch. Soc. Tram, ii, 3.] Jewry Street, Aldgate (Plan C, 10-14). — Objects in Guildhall : bronze figure of goat [Cat. 24]; earring [Cat. 360]; vase of Castor ware [Cat. 327], the latter probably identical with one found in 1870 [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxvii, 157]. Part of the Roman wall uncovered here in 1 861 at No. 37 (Plan C, 14), a long piece being cut through which rested on piles ; the fronts of the houses on the east side of the street are built upon it, and the pavement on this side is consequently higher than on the other [Gent. Mag. (1861), i, 646 ; journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxvi, 163 ; xliii, 203 ; Hartridge, Coll. Newsp. Cuttings, Old London, i, 279 fF. ; see above, p. 52]. Finds reported in 1865 on the east side of the street (Plan C, 11), including 'masses of Roman stone-work and bonding- tiles, with a superstructure of earlier (j;V) date,' [Illus. Lond. News, 19 Aug. 1865]. Another piece of the wall found in 1906 (Plan C, 12-18), and preserved in the offices since built on the site [Proc. Soc. Antiq. xxi, 229 ; Arch. Ix, 191 ; and see p. 52]. John Street, Minories. — During excavations for the Inner Circle Railway in 1882 'a large quantity of remains, with two black urns, were found ; while Roman human remains were met with on the city side of the London Wall ' [yourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxviii, 448 ; and see above, p. 26]. For the wall here, see p. 52, and Plan C, 10. King Edward Street. — In November-December, 1842, an excavation was made from Angel Street northward through Butcher Hall Lane (now King Edward Street), in which were found a coin of Gallus, a mortarium of white clay, and fragments of pottery (Gaulish, black and other wares). At the north end of the lane portion of the wall was observed (Plan C, 45 ; see p. 64). Coins of Valens, Constantine, and Tacitus are also mentioned [Gent. Mag. (1843), i, 21 ; ii, 81, 416 ; Rom. Brit. Rem. 197, 203]. See also Angel Street and St. Martin-le-Grand. King William Street. — Roman remains reported during the construction of this street in 1834, including fragments of Gaulish pottery, rings and lamps (one stamped asvla fecit), found at the corner of Nicholas Lane (Plan C, 60) [Gent. Mag. (1835), i, 493 ; Corp. Inscr. Latin, vii, 1330, 3]. Among other finds of the same date are a small box in the form of a Satyr's or old man's head, with sliding lid in the back, showing that it was used as a receptacle, and four gold rings, all found at the approach to London Bridge, ' at the corner of Eastcheap, near the supposed Roman way.' The head is described as of excellent workmanship ; one ring has an intaglio design of z gryllus or monster in nicolo, another is set with gems [Arch, xix, 172 ; xxvi, 462 ; Gent. Mag. (1834), i, 315 ; Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), ii, 163 ; Soc. Antiq. MS. Min. xxxvi, 361]. Roach Smith adduces ' numerous evidences of Roman habitation on either side of this street (Plan C, 75) : [a) walls of rough unhewn pieces of chalk, often mixed with flints and cemented by firm mortar, ran under or partially intersected the street, which seems to have been closely occupied with dwelling-houses ; (/>) wells of chalk filled with earth mixed with tiles, pottery, bones, were often opened ; (ir) quantities of fragments of earthen vessels and Samian pottery were found ; {d) adjoining St. Clement's Church (Plan C, 73) 12 ft. beneath present level, was a tessellated pavement composed of pieces of red brick ...{/) near the same church many vessels of brown and black earth, small earthen lamps, much Samian ware, rings of base metal, and coins . . . chiefly Claudius, Vespasian, Domitian, with base denarii of Severus, Caracalla, Alexander Severus, and Julia Mammaea.' Towards the Bank the Roman level was much deeper, and numerous wooden piles were observed, also walls intersecting the street ; 'many dwelling-houses on its line, but no trace of a high road' [Arch, xxvii, 140 ; cf. Gent. Mag. (1835), i, 82]. Between London Bridge and Arthur Street was found a bed of oyster-shells, 7 ft. thick, and Stow supposes this to be the site of the ' Oyster Gate.' Frag- ments of pottery, coins, and a leather sandal were also found [Kelsey, Descr. of Sewers, 95 ; Herbert, Hist, of St. Michael, Crooked Lane, 14]. Gaulish pottery in British Museum (Roach Smith, &c.), with stamps of the Rutenian potters Modestus, Secundus, Silvinus, Virtus ; also Marcellus and Perrus ; also a clay lamp, and a collection of iron coins plated with silver, cast together, and evidently forming part of a forger's apparatus ; they are massed together as if packed in box, and are all consular and Imperial denarii, the latest being of the time of Claudius [Cat. Lond. Antiq. 86, No. 387; cf. the plated denarii found in High Street, Southwark (p. 138)]. See also Clement's Lane, Eastcheap. King's Arms' Yard, Moorgate Street. — Part of a curved-edged tile (7 in. long) described by Roach Smith [Coll. Antiq. , 143]. In the British Museum, a marble palette. E. B. Price records the discovery in 1843 of fragments of black cinerary urns, part of a tessellated pave- 106