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(3) Material and History of the Site*. 
The problems which arise here are far more difficult of solution than 
appeared on the first discovery of the bones. This took place in the second week 
of October, 1893, while excavations were being made for the foundations of 
Kinloch's whiskey stores in Whitechapel. The site lies in a blunt-wedge shaped 
area bounded at present on the North by Commercial Road, on the West by 
Gower's Walk, on the East by Backchurch Lane, and on the South by Hooper 
Street. Kinloch's stores are in Backchurch Lane, a fairly large, new building. 
Another new building in Gower's Walk, but nearer Hooper Street, is Brown and 
Map of site, 1847, before Commercial Road was carried through to the Whitechapel Road. St Mary's is 
under the " C " of "Whitechapel Road." Under the " n " of the horizontal "Lane" is the hatched 
area which was Sheen's Burial Ground. Between "r" and "c" of the vertical "Church Lane" on 
the west is the site of Kinloch's, just above the "nick" or bend at the " c." Hooper Street is not 
marked, but is an east and west road not quite half the distance below Kinloch's that Kinloch's 
is from the Commercial Road. The old "Bone Yard" is still visible with a narrow neck running 
into it the bottom of Gower's Walk. To the west of Leman Street, the large square is Goodman's 
Fields. These fields existed in the 16th century, extending over the whole district south of 
St Mary's, and Roman cemeteries were discovered in 1787 in, or perhaps slightly east of, and north 
of this square. 
* Owing to Dr Macdonell having left Loudon, I have at his request supplied this section. I have 
to thank Mr Philip Norman, the staff of the Map Department, British Museum, Mr E. M. Borrajo 
(of the Guildhall Library), Mr M. Apted of Stepney, and Mr W. Minn of Whitechapel for assistance 
in this inquiry. My demonstrator Mr W. L. Atcherley kindly investigated the distances. K. P. 
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