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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
Excavations made in June 1935 for the foundations of a new sub-station of the London Passenger Transport Board at Trinity Place, Trinity Square, E.C., brought to light some remains of the Roman town wall of London. A large portion of the medieval superstructure is still standing on the east side of Trinity Place, and to the north of this the Inner Circle Railway runs in a cutting under the roadway. The construction of this cutting involved the removal of a length of 73 ft. of the wall in 1882 (R.C.H.M. Roman London, 83). The site of the discoveries to be described here was immediately behind the southern retaining wall of the cutting. Both faces of the Roman wall were exposed at this point, and could be examined in detail, and against the external face was a fragment of one of the later Roman bastions (pl. 1). These remains were investigated by the writer on behalf of this Society, and the Passenger Transport Board kindly granted all necessary facilities, and rendered every possible assistance.
page 1 note 1 Roman London, 99.
page 2 note 1 Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. viii, 240.
page 2 note 2 Illustrations of Roman London, 15, 28.
page 2 note 3 Antiquary (1885), xi, 33Google Scholar.
page 4 note 1 As the original positions of these are uncertain, they are shown in broken outline on the plan (fig. 1).
page 4 note 2 According to Mr. Kenneth Oakley, the stone is too fine-grained for normal Bath stone, but is probably one of the Cotswold oolites.
page 5 note 1 Illustrations of Roman London, 28.
page 6 note 1 For reasons of space no indication of the existence of these lines has been shown on pl. iv.
page 6 note 2 He is also mentioned on an inscription at Lyons (C.I.L. vi, 33805 = 9363).
page 6 note 3 Professor Collingwood points out that Tacitus, in his desire to glorify Suetonius as the representative of military glory, does not do justice to Classicianus and his attempts at peaceful settlement.
page 6 note 4 A procurator of Britain named Augustanus probably held office during the sixties, and may, therefore, have succeeded Classicianus. I am indebted to Mr. E. B. Birley and Mr. C. F. C. Hawkes for this information, and for the statement that follows.
page 6 note 5 C.I.L. vii, 66.
page 7 note 1 Espérandieu, Bas-reliefs, statues, et bustes de la Gaule Romaine, vi, 5174 (Neumagen). A restoration of the Trinity Place fragments on these lines is suggested by Lethaby (Londinium, Architecture and the Crafts, 112–14), but he makes the inscribed part too short.
page 7 note 2 Mau, , Pompeii, pl. ixGoogle Scholar, and figs. 232, 233.
page 7 note 3 Among large inscriptions it must be one of the two earliest known from Britain, its only rival being the Cogidubnus inscription at Chichester.