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ROMANO-BRITISH LONDON Blackman Street, Southwark (Plan D, 22). — In the Guildhall Museum, a good bowl of form 29 with figure-decoration of about a.d. 80, found in 1865. Borough Road, Southwark. — Romano-British vase of red ware, 8 in. high, with * scratched device ' round shoulder, from this site, advertised recently for sale by James Tregaskis of High Holborn. Buckingham Square, New Kent Road (Plan D, 1 8). — Part of an olla of red-brown ware found in 1859, with coins of various dates, one of Constantine (obv., helmeted head to 1. and COnstantinopolis ; rev.. Victory and trs); also part of a Gaulish bowl with potter's stamp defaced SJJourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xiii, 321]. Butler's Wharf, Shad Thames. — Two Roman pike-heads found in 1871 [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxvii, 373] ; also a large iron needle with triangular point, about 5 in. long [ibid, xxxiii, 226 ; Guildhall Mus. Cat. 480]. In the British Museum, bronze handle of clasp- knife, modelled in the form of a hare pursued by hounds. Castle Street, Southwark (Plan D, 43). — Brock's map marks * hypocaust flues marked PxTx '** between this street and Barclay and Perkins' Brewery, The find is probably identical with one recorded by Taylor as on the latter site _Annals of St. Mary Overy, 10 ; see Park Street]. See also Southwark Street. Church Street, New, Bermondsey. — Gaulish pottery in British Museum (from Roach Smith), nearly all Rutenian ware of the first century (about a.d. 70) ; some good specimens of orna- mented bowls of form 37 with friezes of figures, and one fragment with stamp of Rufinus ; also a bowl with leaf-decoration in slip. They were found in 1845 at the river end of the street, about 12 or 14 ft. down in a black peaty soil, with coins of Claudius and Vespasian [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, i, 312]. Clink Street, Southwark (Plan D, 38). — On the site of Winchester Palace a small bronze of Tetricus the Elder was found about i860 [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xvi, 324]; the Guildhall Museum has a clay lamp and pottery from the same site Cat. 27, 40, 139]. Compter Street. — See Stoney Street. Deverell Street, Kent Road (Plan D, 19). — A Roman 'hypocaust or flue ' found about 1825 [Gent. Mag. (1825), ii, 633]. In the Dissenters' burial-ground, about 200 yards south- west of Tabard Street, sepulchral remains were brought to light in 1835, at a depth of 6 ft., including pottery, glass, and circular polished bronze mirrors, some of which are now in the British Museum. Over 20 cinerary urns containing calcined bones were discovered, one contained in a large spherical earthenware jar of the type known as a seria or dolium [Arch, xxvi, 467 f ; xxvii, 412 ; xxix, 149 ; Gent. Mag. (1835), i, 82 ; ii, 303 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxiii, 336 ; Soc. Antiq. MS. Min. xxxvi, 448 ; xxxvii, 122 ; see above, p. 8, and fig. i]. Dover Street, Great (Plan D, 23). — Discoveries of Roman remains in 1889 close to St. George's Church, which included a clay lamp, ' believed to be of early Etruscan work- manship,' amphorae and other pottery, oyster-shells, horse-shoes, and bones [Lloycfs Weekly^ 27 Aug. 1889]. Glass bottle found in 1867, now in British Museum [Cato Coll. ; lllus. Lond. News, 30 March, 1867 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxiii, 104; fig. 2 above]. A bowl of form 37 with designs in medallions (probably German fabric), in the Guildhall [Cat. 415], is given as from ' Dover Road,' either from this street or from the Kent Road, farther south. Ewer Street, formerly The Grove, Southwark. — In 1864 two skeletons were unearthed at the corner of this street, and between them remains of an earthenware jar containing over 500 bronze coins of Victorinus, Tetricus, and Claudius Gothicus [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xx, 339 ; i« above, p. 23]. Glass bottle in British Museum [Arch. Rev. i, 277 ; fig. 2 above], found at a depth of 30 ft. Fishmongers' Ground, Walworth Road. — Roman jug of red clay found in 1864 [Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), ii, 359] ; another of black clay from this locality acquired by the British Museum in 1865, 6 in. high, scored with lattice patterns. Grove, The. — See Ewer Street. Guildford Street, Southwark (Plan D, 44). — A ' flower-vase ' with frilled ornament in Guild- hall Museum, from the site of Pott's Vinegar Works in this street [Cat. 204], apparently identical with one published in Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xiv, 337]. Numerous piles were found on the same spot about 1867 [ibid, xxiii, 87]. Guy's Hospital (Plan D, 7). — About 1836 Roman pots and pans were found in a layer of peat and black loam representing Roman vegetable mould [Dr. Odling in G«y'i Hospital Reports, vol. i ; Arch. Journ. xlii, 274]. In the Guildhall Museum, a fragment of Lezoux ware [form 37 ; Cat. 524]. " Cf. iox these tiles lllus. Rom. Lond. p. 114; Walters, Ancient Pottery, ii, 348 I 137 18