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A HISTORY OF LONDON immense wall with its layers of bond tiles'" {^Gent. Mag. (1843), ■> 21 ; Rom.-Brit. Rem. i, 196; see above, p. 11]. Roach Smith in 1841 records the finding of a pavement near Well Court, 14 ft. square, at a depth of 13 ft., and two gold armlets [^Illus. Rom. Lend. 127]; he mentions that several walls cut right across the street (see Plan C, 157) [Arch, xxix, 155 ; Proc. Soc. Antiq. ii, 93]. Fragments of horses' trappings were found in 1853 {.Land, and Midd. Arch. Soc. Trans, i, 134]. Fragments of painted Romano-British ware in British Museum ; also a sculptured stone jamb [fig. 23, p. 70; Coll. Antiq. i, pi. 48 B, fig. 2]. Pottery (1850) in Bethnal Green Museum. See also Cannon Street. QuEENHiTHE. — Roman pottery found in 1863 [Proc. Soc, Antiq. (Ser. 2), ii, 307; Arch, xl, 41]. Bronze ornament in Guildhall [Cat. 1 15]. See also Thames, bed of, and Thames Street, Upper. Queen Victoria Street (Plan C, 120, 122, 130). — Numerous discoveries were made in 1872—3, during the construction of this street, the most noteworthy being those on the premises of the National Safe Deposit Company, No. I, at the angle of Walbrook (Plan C, 122). The interesting collection of finds from this site is now in the Guildhall Museum, where it has been kept together and exhibited in case IV [See J. E. Price, Rom. Antiq. Nat. Safe Dep. 1873, and Guildhall Mus. Cat. 109-19]. It includes various kinds of pottery : Gaulish bowls of forms 18, 24, and 27 (Dragendorff) with potters' stamps, all Rutenian fabric of the first century, and other forms with the stamps of Geminus and Tituro from Lezoux. The ornamented wares include some good specimens of Rutenian bowls of form 29 (mostly the later varieties, about A.D. 70), a fine bowl of form 30 with scrolls of foliage, and thirty-seven bowls of the same date. To a later period belong a German bowl (form 37) with the stamp cerealis f, and a deversorium with lion's head spout. There are also fragments of Upchurch ware, a bowl of ' marbled ' ware with the stamp manertvs, an early first-century flat plate of 'Belgic ' black ware without stamp (this ware is rare in Britain, especially in London), and fragments of red-glazed ' cut-glass ' ware with incised patterns (a second-century Lezoux fabric). The coins extend from Claudius to Antoninus Pius, thus exactly covering the period (a.d. 40-140), within which the pottery is comprised. [For list of potters' marks, see Cat. 116 and Price, op. cit., 64]. Mr. Price states that the finds were made at a depth of 32 ft., 2 ft. beneath an oaken frame-work 3 ft. square, above which was much wooden piling. He also mentions a perfect globular amphora {see his pi. 4), 5 ft. to the south-west. In a trench parallel to Charlotte Row (sc. north to south) was found a timber flooring supported by huge oak timbers, 25 ft. below the surface, also a portion of a coarse flooring of tiles and concrete. In a trench running east and west were found fragments of bricks and tiles, coins, pottery, blackened wheat, and quantities of wooden piles; the remains bore evidence of the action of fire. See Plan C, 120. He also mentions among the finds (besides the pottery) two clay lamp-moulds, clay and iron lamp-stands, miscellaneous implements of bronze and iron, shoes and sandals, &c. [see the plates of his work and Guildhall Cat. loc. cit. ; also Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxii, 243]. Other finds which may be noted are : In 1 870, amphora-handle stamped agricolae [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxvi, 375] ; in 1872, an amphora of peg-top' type, three fine jars of Castor ware, one with hunting-scene, a red-glazed jar with spout (? so-called feeding-bottle), and a conduit-pipe of red clay (Plan C, 130 ; ibid, xxvii, 76 ; xxviii, 393 ; xxix, 77, 185). In 1873, two tweezers, a pronged iron-shod object identified as a punt-pole (cf. p. 130) ; part of a bronze eagle; part of a mortarium and hob-nailed shoes; miscellaneous implements and gold trinkets [ibid, xxix, 85, 182 (with pi. 6), 184, 194 ; xxx, 87 ; Illus. Land. News, 4 October, 1873, p. 326]. Subsequent reports of finds: Clay lamp (1875); bronze fibulae, silver needle, bone pins, glass beads, &c. (1876) [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxi, 316; xxxii, 527]. In 1884 were reported a bone ear-pick terminating in the head of a unicorn, a bronze pin terminating in a head of Bacchus, bronze needles, and iron styli [ibid, xl, 119. See also Arch. Rev. i, 357]. Excavations in 1891 near the corner of Walbrook yielded at a depth of 26 ft. a bronze balance [Guildhall Mus. Cat. 4], iron nail, and a two-handled jar or flask of bufF ware [Standard, 17 May, 1891 ; Antiq. xxxiii, 231). In the Guildhall, besides the objects already noted, are various implements, Gaulish, Castor, and other varieties of pottery ; in the British Museum, a bone hinge or part of a flute [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxv, 282], found 1869. In Mr. Ransom's collection at Hitchin, a bowl of Lezoux ware with figures and a jar of Upchurch ware with panels of raised dots. See also Bucklersbury. Rood Lane. — Fragments of Gaulish pottery in British Museum (Roach Smith ; stamps of Patricus, Malliacus, and Martinus) ; glass vessels in Guildhall [C(7^ 45-50, 126]. In Mr. Ransom's collection, Upchurch jar as from Queen Victoria Street [v. supra]. "For simil.ir remains of a house cf. Bush Lane. 120