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A HISTORY OF LONDON Union Road, Newington. — Coins of Carausius, Constantius, and Constantine, and two bronze sheep-bells, found in 1897 Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, (new ser.), iii, 305]. Union Street, Southwark (Plan D, 28). — Lindsay records under this heading the discovery of a pavement in 1820 in the courtyard of St. Saviour's schools _Etym. of Southwark, 5] ; but it is not impossibly the one given in Brock's map on the south side of St. Saviour's church [see above, p. 140). The map referred to marks here ' Roman sepulchral antiquities first observed May 1814.' In 1825 fragments of Gaulish pottery were found [Gent. Mag. 1825, ii, 633]. Glass vessel in Guildhall Museum [Cat. 26]. Other glass vessels from the Gwilt Collection, said to be from a burial, exhibited to the Archaeological Association in 1875 [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxi, 320 ; see also Lindsay, op. cit. 6]. Winchester Palace, site of. — See Park Street. York Street. — See Bedale Street. oineyS Southwark (Uncertain Localities). — Five lamps, one inscribed meSiaa, and small glass bottle [Arch, yourn. xxxii, 1 08]. Two large pewter dishes in British Museum, one with the name martinvs [Arch. Ivi, 8, 16] ; one being analysed yielded 72^90 of tin and 26'75 of lead, with traces of iron. A small hoard of coins found in 1902 in excavating for the tube railway 18ft. below the surface, in a bed of peat: one of Agrippa (b.c. 27-12), three of Claudius, eleven of Nero, two of Vespasian [Num. Chron. (Ser. 4), iii, 99]. Amphora in British Museum inscribed ' [Corp. Inscr. Latin, vii, 1331, 1I ; also a Gaulish bowl of CAESARIS l r > JO > J > form 30, a fragment of red ' cut glass ' ware of the second century, and a clay lamp with wreath found on the S.E. Railway. In the Guildhall, Gaulish bowls of form 37 with figures, one with the stamp paterni (2nd century), also bowls with stamps of passeni and materni, and one with 'slip' decoration [Cat. 420, 449, 452, 504, 538(2, 585]. A fine Roman glass bottle ' found on the site of the Roman cemetery,' exhibited to the Archaeological Association in 1879 [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxx, 428]. References to Plan C, Roman London : CITY WALL (Figures in red on plan and in itaRcs in text) 10. 1 1. 12. 13- 14- 15- 16. 17- 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23- Portion of Wall preserved near White Tower Bastion, Wardrobe Tower Site of Postern Gate Existing Wall, Trinity Place Bastion, Tower Hill, disused station Wall removed for Inner Circle Railway „ existing. Coopers' Row „ and tile drain removed, London & Blackwall Railway Bastion removed, London & Blackwall Railway Bastion, John Street Wall preserved at Roman Wall House ,, destroyed, Cass Schools Probable bastion Wall on piles, north end of Jewry Street Site of Aldgate Wall, Duke Street Bastions „ Wall rear of 31, Houndsditch Bastion adjoining „ „ Goring Street, formerly Castle Street Wall partly destroyed, St. Martin Outwich Graveyard Bastion, Camomile Street 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30- 31- 32- 33- 34- 35- 36. 37- 38- 39- 40. 41- 42. 43- 44- 45- 46. 47- 4S. Site of Bishopsgate Wall, Wormwood Street „ New Broad Street Bastion, Allhallows Church Wall and Tile Drain west of Allhallows Church Culvert east of Carpenters' Hall „ opposite Finsbury Chambers Wall in bed of stream, Antiquaries' Shaft „ west of Moorgate Probable Bastion Blind Arches in base of wall, Aldermanbury Wall preserved, St. Alphage Graveyard Site of Cripplegate Existing Bastion, Cripplegate Churchyard Bastion, Barber Surgeons' Hall Probable Ballista Tower Bastion, Castle Street (Bastion House) „ at angle of wall, Noble Street Site of Aldersgate Wall preserved in General Post Office Bastion, King Edward Street Wall, site of Christ's Hospital ^Bastions, Christ's Hospital 142