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and what could be collected of the leaden coffin referred to "was 

 sent to the British Museum. 



The Lecturer then proceeded to give a brief description of 

 some relics of the Koman period then being unearthed at Castle 

 Street, in Bevis Marks. There the old wall was again met with — 

 fine fragments with the facing perfect in every respect, and the 

 treble course of bright red tiles weU defined. It appeared 8 feet 

 from the surface line, and, as usual, was about 8 feet 6 inches 

 thick. At the corner of Castle Street one of the old bastions 

 attached to the wall for increasing its strength appeared in situ ; 

 the foundations of the massive structure were perfect, and large 

 quantities of ancient masonry had to be removed. These were 

 foiind to include massive coping-stones, semi-circular in section, 

 caps of columns, pilasters, and other architectural fragments. 

 Portions of a frieze, "upon which were sculptured groups illustrative 

 of a funeral feast, were discovered. The seated figures and the 

 figure of a table supported by legs in the form of winged lions, 

 were well preserved. Another relic showed a panel, having upon 

 it a well-modelled figure of a cupid, or genius, in bas-relief, the 

 body holding in one hand a festoon or wreath of fruit-leaves on 

 Avhicli a bird was perched. A small statue of a male figure clothed 

 and in singular dress was also discovered — the head was missing, 

 but there were certain resemblances in the figure to the statue of 

 Atys, Avhich Avas discovered in this locality many years ago, and 

 which is now in the British Museum. Some remains of inscriptions 

 were also met with, and of these sufficient remained legible to 

 prove that the whole of these important sculptures had belonged 

 to sepulchral memorials erected by the Romans. These had 

 been broken up and used as building materials, when the line of 

 bastions, which are knoAvn to have existed in connection with this 

 l^ortion of the city wall, was constructed. The remains Avere of 

 like character to those which had been discovered in the bastion 

 found at Camomile Street some years ago, and which are now 

 carefully preserved at Guildhall. Of these an exhaustive descriiDtion 

 had been published by the London and Middlesex Archaeological 

 Society. Since these discoveries other bastions have been examined ; 

 they were consti'ucted- in like manner, and their situations had 



