ROMAN RELICS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 4 January 1923, Page 8

ROMAN RELICS.

——" —c—• PLUNGE BATH IN LONDON. Unless some one steps in to save the old Roman plunge bath in Strand Lane from falling into unknown hands, one or the last relics of Roman London which still stands on its original site may shortly disappear, for the freehold is tor sale, and the site, within a few doors of the Strand, may be considered ot commercial value, says a. London paper. .Very few relics of Roman London will remain with us. Fragments of the -Roman wall can still be seen in various parts of the city. J_ tesselated pavement taken from the site of East India House, and the head of a statue of the Emperor Hadrian, found in the Ihames, are at the British. Museum. ihe Roman boat which had been lyinotor centuries in the mud of the river until it was (discovered thje work of excavation for the new county hall, is preserved in the London Museum; and there, too, besides a great deal of pottery and other relies ot the period, are great wine jars from Mansell Street, Lombard Street, and Old Broad Street; several sculptures; and a small marble tombstone with a relief representing a boy standing before a seated woman, which was found on pulling down a house in Drury .Lane The stone has an inscription ! *J»ch. translated, reads: "Dexios, son ot Didimus, Excellent, Farewell