Of material evidence little has survived. On the destruction of _St. Benet Fink_ about fifty years ago a fragment of a Saxon grave-stone was found, which is now in the Guildhall Museum (Fig. 32). In Roach Smith's _Catalogue of London Antiquities_, No. 571, is the head of a Saxon cross ("of the tenth or eleventh century") which was found in the old burial-ground of St. John-upon-Walbrook. I am able to identify this with the cross-head in the Saxon Room at the British Museum from a sketch of Roach Smith's, which I have, which bears the same number 571 (see the diagram, Fig. 33). It has been said that Roman foundations have been found under some of the churches.[188] Several of the churches outside the walls can be traced back so far as to make it probable that they were founded before the Conquest. The Assise of 1189(?), speaking of a fire in the first year of Stephen (1136), says it burnt from London Bridge to _S. Clementis Danorum_; in a charter of Henry II. this church is called _S. Clementis quæ dicitur Dacorum_ (Dugdale, under "Temple"). It was still earlier the subject of a charter of the Conqueror's (see p. 85). According to M. of Westminster the body of Harold I., buried at Westminster, was dug up in 1040 and thrown into the Thames, "but it was found and buried by the Danish people in the cemetery of the Danes"--"at S. Clement's," says R. Diceto, the London historian who wrote in the twelfth century. This is probably the cemetery of the Danes who were killed in London in Ethelred's reign. M. of Westminster (under 1012) says many of the Danes fled to a certain church in the city, where they were all murdered. Stow says they were slain in a place called the Church of the Danes. _St. Mary le Strand._--Here Becket held his first cure. His biographer FitzStephen calls it _S. Mariæ Littororiam_. _St. Andrew's_, Holborn, is mentioned in the somewhat doubtful charter dated 951 (see p. 60). _St. Bridget_, Fleet Street, was also of early foundation (Stow). _St. Sepulchre's_ is mentioned in the twelfth century.[189] Of the monasteries in the neighbourhood, _Barking_ was founded in the seventh century, _Westminster_ not later than the tenth, and _Bermondsey_, the fine new church of which is mentioned in Domesday, was probably only refounded by Alwyn Childe. A "monasterium" in Southwark mentioned in Domesday may be _St. Olave_, which is spoken of as early as 1096.[190] All the manors round about London probably had churches before the Conquest, although the only one we can be certain of is that of St. Pancras, as the place is called by that name in Domesday. Stepney Church is said to have been rebuilt by Dunstan. It still contains a small sculpture of the Crucifixion, which is probably eleventh-century work. What these little churches were like we may know from the illustrations of the Saxon church at Kingston which was destroyed at the beginning of this century, and the log church at Greenstead, Essex, which still stands.