An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 3, Roman London

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Table of Contents

Title Page(s)
Frontispiece: Bronze Head of Hadrian
List of plates iv-vi
List of plans and illustrations in Text vii-viii
Preface ix-x
Report xi-xiv
Authorities cited in the Text xv-xxi
Introduction: Classical and post-classical authorities 1-10
Introduction: Geological and geographical setting 10-18
Introduction: London in A.D. 43 19-27
Introduction: London in A.D. 60 27-32
Introduction: London after A.D. 60 33-56
Introduction: The status of Roman London 56-62
Introduction: London in the 5th century 62-68
Inventory of Roman London: The defences, introduction 69-82
Inventory of Roman London: The defences, structural remains 83-106
Inventory of Roman London: Structures within the walls 106-145
Inventory of Roman London: Structures outside the walls 145-151
Appendix 1: Burials in Roman London 152-169
Appendix 2: Inscriptions of Roman London 170-178
Appendix 3: Terra Sigillata 179-186
Appendix 4: Roman coinage in London 187-191
Notes on the site of the Roman bridge in London (Appendix Five) 192-194
Key to maps A and B 195-196
Glossary 197
Index 198-207
Plate 1: Bronze Head of Hadrian 1
Plate 2: Bronze Arm 2
Plate 3: Bronze Hand and Bronze Foot 3
Plate 4: Bronze Forceps 4
Plate 5: Plan of Roman Walls on Site of Leadenhall 5
Plate 6: Fragment of Sculpture. Seething Lane, Fragment of Sculpture of Mother Goddess 6
Plate 7: Bastion 10, Camomile Street, Figure of a Soldier 7
Plate 8: Sculptured Fragments 8
Plate 9: Fragments of Sculpture 9
Plate 10: Sculptures 10
Plate 11: Bastion 10, Camomile Street, Re-used Sculptures 11
Plate 12: Goldsmiths' Hall, Altar of Diana. Tombstones 12
Plate 13: Tombstones. Sculptured Stone 13
Plate 14: Sculptured Stones 14
Plate 15: Bastion 10, Camomile Street, Re-used Carved Stones 15
Plate 16: Bastion 10, Camomile Street, Re-used Carved Stones 16
Plate 17: Bastion 10, Camomile Street, Re-used Carved Stones 17
Plate 18: Coped Top of a Marble Tomb. Granite Base of a Large Column 18
Plate 19: Terminal Figure. Bastion 8, Bevis Marks, Fragments of Column 19
Plate 20: Cannon Street, Carved Base Stone. Capitals 20
Plate 21: Bastion 9, Castle Street, Re-used Stones 21
Plate 22: Town Wall 3 and Bastion 2, Trinity Place 22
Plate 23: Town Wall 5, Coopers Row 23
Plate 24: Town Wall 27, Aldermanbury Postern 24
Plate 25: Town Wall 4 25
Plate 26: Town Wall 9, Jewry Street and Crutched Friars 26
Plate 27: Town Wall 21 in London Wall. Town Wall 37, Newgate Prison Site 27
Plate 28: Bastion 7, Dukes Place, Aldgate 28
Plate 29: Bastion 3, America Square 29
Plate 30: Bastion 11, All Hallows' Church, London Wall 30
Plate 31: Town Wall 15, and Bastion 9, Bevis Marks and Castle Street 31
Plate 32: Town Wall 15, and Bastion 9, Bevis Marks and Castle Street 32
Plate 33: Bastion 12, St Giles's, Cripplegate. Bastion 14, Windsor Court, Monkwell Street 33
Plate 34: Town Wall 35 and Bastions 18 and 19 34
Plate 35: Bastion 18, Looking S.W. 35
Plate 36: Bastion 19, View of Interior 36
Plate 37: Town Wall 35 and Bastion 19 37
Plate 38: Bastion 11, All Hallows', London Wall. Bank of England, Well of Barrel-Staves 38
Plate 39: Broad Street (Old), Tessellated Pavement 39
Plate 40: Fenchurch Street, Tessellated Pavement 40
Plate 41: Bucklersbury, Plan of Tessellated Pavement 41
Plate 42: Bucklersbury, Tessellated Pavement 42
Plate 43: No. 50, Cornhill, Pier. Lombard Street and Gracechurch Steet, Brick Pier 43
Plate 44: Pudding Lane, Hypocaust 44
Plate 45: Thames Street (Lower), Hypocaust 45
Plate 46: No. 63 Threadneedle Street, Roman Bath. St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark, Walls of a Roman House 46
Plate 47: Bank of England, Pavement 47
Plate 48: Broad Street, Pavement 48
Plate 49: Leadenhall Street, Pavement 49
Plate 50: Threadneedle Street, Pavements 50
Plate 51: Sculptured Stones 51
Plate 52: Liverpool Street, Fragment of a Terra-cotta Figure. St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Altar 52
Plate 53: Blomfield Street, Pottery Fragments. Southwark, Flagon with Inscription 53
Plate 54: Bastion 2, Tower Hill, Sepulchral Monument 54
Plate 55: Plan Showing Position of Burials 55
Plate 56: Warwick Square, Leaden Cylinders 56
Plate 57: Stone Coffin and Sarcophagi 57
Plate 58: Leaden Coffin-Lids 58
Plate 59: Warwick Square, Vase 59
Plate 60: Ludgate Hill, Tombstone. Tower Hill, Tombstone 60
Plate 61: Blackfriars, Fragment of Tombstone. London Wall, Inscribed Slab. Maiden Lane, Fragment of Tombstone 61
Plate 62: Ludgate Hill, Column. Bastion 9, Castle Street, Inscribed Stone 62
Plate 63: Warwick Lane, Tile. Fragment of Samian Vessel. Fragment of Shale Tablet 63
Plate 64: Plan Showing Pottery Finds 64
Plate 65: Casts of Coins of the Roman Mint of London 65
Plate 66: Bronze Statuettes 66
Plate 67: Bronze Figures. Gold Medallion of Constantius I 67
Plate 68: Bronze Statuette of Archer 68
Plan B: Southwark plan showing structural remains 70
Plan C: London district showing Roman remains 71
Plan D: London district showing relief and river systems 72