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whicli, passing beneath the Hall of the Skinners' Company, crossed 

 College Street, and joined the old sewers in Lower Thames Street. 



By the side of the brook near to the foundations of the church 

 of St. John the Baptist, the remains of an old landing stage were 

 well defined, together with a large piece of Roman pavement 

 formed of small red bricks, and laid in what is technically known 

 as the " herring-bone " pattern. The greater part of this had to 

 1)e destroyed, but a small piece by way of illustration was pre- 

 served, and is now in the City Museum at Guildhall. Near to 

 St. Swithin's Church a large block of Roman masonry had to be 

 cut through as it crossed Cannon Street. This wall was again met 

 with iu Bush Lane, a circumstance which leads to the opinion tliat 

 it was once a boundary wall of the early city, and erected for such 

 purpose on the eastern bank of the stream, afterwartls known as 

 Walbrook. 



Near to the wall in Bush Lane the remains of another tesse- 

 lated pavement were discovered ; it was of a superior kind and 

 formed of small cubes of light-coloured stones. Xot far from this,, 

 quantities of pottery and other objects were met witli. At Fish 

 Street Hill the "Weigh House Chapel had to be piUled down m 

 order to make way for the " Monument Station ; " here some 

 human remains were discovered, but nothing besides of antiquarian 

 interest. At Seething Lane, at the bottom of what had apparently 

 been a well, the arm of a fine bronze statue was recovered ; the 

 greater part of the arm together with the vrtist and fingers wa& 

 perfect, and the relic had evidently formed portion of the statue 

 of a male figure of heroic size. As a work of art it is. extremely 

 good, and affords a proof that the city of " Londiniuni Augusta " 

 was then, as now, adorned with statues, doubtless erected to those 

 whom the citizens of that far-off time deemed worthy of honour. 



Under the gardens of Trinity Square the soil was light in colour^ 

 and numerous remains of reeds, water-plants, &c., were disclosed. 

 At one part of Tower Hill the roots of many ancient trees came 

 into view, an indication of the ancient vegetation which had been 

 cleared away when the site came into the occupation of the early 

 colonists. Xear to the west end of the gardens, on the place sa 

 marked on the ordnance map, the remains of the old scaffold were 



