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ROMANO-BRITISH LONDON Fig. 62. — Lamp in Form of Gladiator's Helmet (^) CEM . . . ; jar of New Forest ware ; bronze flask with the original clay mould inside it yourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxviii, 106; xxxix, 81]. 1884. Cinerary urn containing bones covered by a Gaulish bowl and a small bronze coin ; on the cover, a lamp and lamp-stand ; jar of Upchurch ware ; bronze fibula and chain. Said to have been found near the Fleet Ditch [ibid, xl, 1 16]. 1885. Jar of polished red ware with head modelled in form of female head (third century) [ibid, xli, 96]. Among the British Museum objects from the Roach Smith collection may be specially noted a bronze model of the prow of a Roman galley (Fig. 61), on which is in- scribed (backwards) ammilla.avg.felix, together with a palm-branch, all inlaid in niello ; the front of the prow is in the form of a swan's head, with a ram's or dog's head below. Probably a copy of some famous ship, perhaps of the classis Britannica ; ammilla may be the name of the ship, the Greek ajXiXka being thus used in Attic inscriptions {Illus. Rom. Lond. 75 ; Cat. Lond. Antiq. lO, No. 26, pi. 3, I ; Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), xvi, 306]. Also a group of the Deae Matres standing [Ctf/. Lond. Antiq. I, No. 3 ; Illus. Rom. Lond. 45, pi. 6, fig. I ; Arch. Aeliana, xv, 328, No. 4] ; a clay lamp in the form of a gladiator's helmet (Fig. 62) ; a fragment of Gaulish pottery across which is impressed an oculist's stamp " ' ' , L. "Juli Senis cr{ocodes) ad aspr[itudinem 'saffron ointment for granulation of the eyelids' [see Cat. Lond. Antiq. i^.j, No. 208 ; Corp. Inscr. Latin, vii, 1314] ; part of a glass vase with representation of a chariot-race in the circus [Cat. Lond. Antiq. 48, No. 211]; a graduated steelyard [ibid. 78, No. 350; Illus. Rom. Lond. 144; Corp. Inscr. Latin, vii, 1282]. In Mr. Ransom's possession at Hitchin is a very fine collection of Gaulish pottery from London, many of the specimens being quite perfect, but without any record of the place of discovery ; they include six specimens of form 29 with ornamentation [see fig. 64), and others of forms 30 and 37 ; also potter's stamps offeicis, fioriinianvs fe, moxima, a fragment of a vase with appliqui reliefs (Cupid driving a pair of dogs ; see fig. 64), a mortarium with stamp of albinvs, &c.; numerous y?iKA7£', a gold ring with design of Mercury and Cupid ; an iron hippo- sandal ; bone pins, a bone whistle, an iron stylus ; glass vessels ; day lamps, two with stamps FORTis and strobili ; and a tile with ppr^lon [see Antiq. xxiv, 168]. In Mr. W. M. Newton's collection at Dartford is a Roman altar (Fig. 63), found either in Noble Street or at St. Bartholo- mew's Hospital, of quadrangular form, measuring 10 in. by 5 in. by 5 in., of soft stone with mouldings at top and bottom ; on the front is a roughly-carved figure holding a forked implement. CITY OF WESTMINSTER Bond Street, Old. — In March 1894, a stone culvert with joints of brick set in cement was found, running southward ; not certainly Roman [Antiq. xxix, 244]. CocKSPUR Street. — Vase containing human bones found in 1820 [Soc. Antiq. MS. Min. xxxv, 348 ; see p. 7]. College Street, Westminster. — In the Abbey garden, when digging the foundations of the canons' houses in 1883, the remains of a Roman dwelling were found in a layer of peat resting on gravel ; they consisted of slabs of concrete flooring on which tiles were laid, roof- tiles, and other 'rubbish ' ; the depth was 14 ft. Similar remains were found in the cloisters [Arch. Journ. xlii, 274]. Houses of Parliament. — * Cinerary urn ' found in 1841 [Soc. Antiq. MS. Min. xxxviii, 149]. An earthenware vase, 11 in. high, discovered in 1847, in excavating for the new Houses; it was stamped with network patterns and a band of stars round the neck, and is described as ' late Roman or early Saxon.' It is in any case doubtful if it is Roman [Journ. Brit. Arch, Assoc, ii, 102]. Howard Street, Strand. — Sarcophagus found at the corner of this street in 1741 [Soc. Antiq. MS. Min. iv, 109^; see p. 16]. Hyde Park. — ' A Roman geometric *^ stone called Ossulstone ' (whence the name of the Hundred) is figured in Roque's map of 1 741-61 (sheet xi), and stood near the north-east angle " The word is used here in its literal sense for a stone employed in measuring distances.