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A HISTORY OF LONDON High Street, Southwark. — In 1818 a cemetery is said to have been discovered at No. 200 (Plan D, 26), with pottery and other remains [Taylor, Annals of St. Mary Overy, p. II, pi. I, fig. 6; pi. 2, figs. 1-4, 6-8]. Brock's map says 'Roman cemetery thought to commence near this spot, many bones, stiles, and spears found.' Farther to the north (Plan D, 13) the same map marks the discovery of 30 or 40 lamps, an urn and ' human skull in Samian tazza,' 1818-20. In excavating for sewers between the Town Hall and York Street (Plan D, 32), in 1833, a cinerary urn was found (near York Street) containing burnt bones, and near it, various glass bottles, and a ' ring-vase ' of clay with three small jars attached (a type known in nearly all periods of Greek and Roman pottery) [Gent. Mag. (1833), '> 4°i> P^- 2]. Other sepulchral remains were brought to light in 1897 near St. George's Church (Plan D, 24), consisting of pottery, lamps, glass, coins of Claudius and Nero, and (presumably, though this is not explicitly stated) cinerary urns with remains of burnt bones, the whole find dating about A.D. 55-60 [Journ.Brit. Arch. Asioc. (new ser.), iv, 95 ; Antiq. xxxiv, 71 ; see p. 6]. Miscel- laneous discoveries have been made from time to time, of Roman pottery and other objects, covering the distance from the river to St. George's Church. In 1840, on the west side about 100 yards north of St. George's Church (Plan D, 27) were found flue- and roof-tiles, Gaulish and other pottery, beads, fragments of glass bottles, a bell, coins of Tiberius, Faustina I, Severus, and Tetricus,*' and fresco-paintings of a superior kind. Some of the last- named had foliage and flowers in green, yellow, and white on a dark ground, others plain borders of red, green, and white Arch. xxix, 149]. In 1854 a large brass of Hadrian was found (obv. Hadrian vs avgvstvs pp ; rev. Plenty with cornucopia and hilaritas . PR . cos. iii) [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, x, 375]. At King's Head Yard (Plan D, 12) in 1879 pottery of various kinds, a bird in red earthen- ware forming a flask or rattle (r), and sundry coins from Claudius to Magnentius came to light ; among the pottery was part of a bowl stamped lvppa [ibid, xxxv, 216 ; xxxvi, 122]. On the same site in 1880: part of a tessellated pavement, a coin of Domitian, and pottery, including a fragment stamped secvndvs • f • [ibid, xxxvii, 234]. Further excavations on the same site in 188 1 yielded more results: flue- and roof-tiles, fragments of stamped amphorae, Gaulish pottery and other varieties, a key, and coins of Vespasian and Domitian. A coin of Justinus (a.d. 537) was also reported. These remains appear to betoken the presence of an inhabited building yourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxvii, 211, 427]. Miscellaneous pottery also found in 1882, with stamps of • seve (ri), and of . calvi [ibid, xxxviii, loi]. Pottery of various dates was found in 1885 opposite St. George's Church (Plan D, 24) [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xlii, 79 ; cf. Arch. Rev. iii, 137]. In 1890 on a site not specifically defined, a glass bottle, a lamp, and rough pottery were found [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xlvii, 91] ; in 1892 a string of blue beads in Three Cranes' Court (? Yard) [ibid, xlviii, 83] ; in 1895, at a depth of 14 ft. an extensive collection of Gaulish pottery, with potters' stamps (of which of • PASsiENi, a Rutenian potter, and firmi • o, a German name, are mentioned), also a scored flue-tile, a stamped amphora-handle, part of a mortarium stamped tvcem (? tvgen), and a series of piles [ibid, (new ser.), i, 88, 189]. Two fragments of ist-century Gaulish pottery in British Museum. Brock's map marks at the approach to London Bridge (Plan D, 4) ' much red Samian ware, amphorae and bronze key.' Joiner Street, Southwark (Plan D, 5). — Fragments of ' Roman red pottery ' discovered in 1841 during the making of the South-Eastern Railway, also gold and copper coins, at a depth of 17 ft. [Arch. Journ. i, 246]. Among the former, a bowl of Arretine ware with stamp of Ateius [Corp. Inscr. Lat. vii, 1336, 96], in Bethnal Green Museum. Kent Road. — Strype reports the finding of ' Roman urns, ampullae, &c., in the gardens on the right side of the road going southwards ; also a head of Janus cut in stone, which was preserved at one of the gardeners' houses.' From other writers we learn that the site referred to was the spot formerly known as St. Thomas IFatering, near the point where Albany Road now joins the Old Kent Road {see above, p. 39). The ' head of Janus ' is further described by a writer in the Gentleman's Afagazine as a combination of a female head with that of a bearded male deity with ram's horns and laurel-wreath, called ' Deus Terminus ; ' from an illustration given by Allen it may be gathered that the heads are intended for Jupiter Ammon and Juno, the goddess wearing a sphendone, or perhaps an Emperor and Empress in those capacities.** It is not possible, however, to judge from this illustration the artistic merit of the sculpture [Stow, Survey (ed. Strype), ii, App. v, 23 ; Bagford's letter to Hearne (i 7 1 5) in Leland's Coll. i, p. Iviii ; Brayley, Land, and Midd. i, 77 ; AFlen, Hist, of Land, i, 37 ; Gent. Mag. (1824), i, 409 ; Hasted, Hist, of Kent (1886), i, 20]. " Some of the coins are described as plated denarii ; cf. those found in King William Street (p. 106). " Cf. the large Marlborough cameo in the Brit. Mus. which, according to Prof. Furtwaengler, re;?re<eiit«  Claudius and Messalina ; also Brit. Mus. Cat. of Bronzes, No. 938.