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ROMANO-BRITISH LONDON the Liverpool Street Station (Plan A, 26) a large number of cineraries was found, one specimen at least being protected by a wooden cist or box,^' but neither here nor at West Smithfield, where a similar find had previously been made, were there any traces of nails or any other metal fastening.'^ From indications on this and other sites in London it seems that the burnt bones when collected from the pyre were wrapped in linen or some vegetable substance before being deposited in the urn. The presence of a statuette of white ware (p. 1 6) indicates the first century as the date of the cemetery, but no coins are recorded. A similar but richer discovery was made close by in Blomfield Street (Plan A, 19) '^ and has been fully illustrated.^* In 1869 a framework of oak 1 8 in. square was found surmounted by an inverted globular amphora the neck and handles of which had apparently been removed before- hand.'^ Inside were found a large glass jug containing some burnt bones covered with a pottery bowl, and two pottery urns between 8 in. and 9 in. high, one being inserted in a small wooden keg of which some staves remained. Near this cist-burial stood an amphora 22 in. high of the kind often found in interments, but doubtless made for domestic purposes. What must have been a similar interment was found during 1873 ^" Bishopsgate Street Without (Plan A, 27).'^^ A decayed cist (evidently of wood) had protected a cinerary urn of glass 8i in. high containing bones, a tall cylindrical jug, square jug and alabastron (unguent bottle), all of glass, and a red-ware cup (form 27) stamped M BACci, of the I St or early 2nd century. EwzR Street, Southwark Newgate Street Great Dover Street Fig. 2. — Glass Cinerary Urn and Bottles from London (British Museum) (i) " This seems to be the cist from the cemetery in Sun Street, Bishopsgate, removed for the station, but close to the Roman road (Guildhall Cat. p. 86, l6i). " Proc. Soc. Antiq. vi, 1 72. " Formerly Broker Row; find was on site of Bethlem Priory east of Moorfields {Arch. Journ. Ix, 170, 181), E. bank of Walbrook, but according to Price {Bucklersbury Pavement, 48, site no. 20 on map) on site of Eye Hospital. '* Lond. and Midd. Arch. Soc. Trans, iii, 495, pi. viii ; possibly some urns found towards Eldon Street belong to a cemetery here, but the sites as marked on map {Arch. Journ. Ix, 204) are divided by the Walbrook. Arch, xxix, 153. " In a burial at Colchester, where the upper part of the amphora had been broken off" and replaced, was found a coin of Faustina the younger (d. 175). Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, i, 239. "' Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxx, 205, plates ix-xi ; May hew Cat. I 2