Within the walls the city is adorned by more than one bronze statue. The sculptured ornaments of the public buildings are somewhat rude and ponderous, but the dwellings are furnished with numerous imported works of art, such as bronze statuettes, bowls of red Samian ware, and very beautiful coloured glass vessels of the _millefiore_ kind. The rooms have their walls painted in bright colours with birds, flowers, and figures, and imitations of porphyry and verde antique, while a few are cased with thin slabs of marble. The pavements are patterned mosaic, and raised above hot air chambers; lead pipes supply water, the windows are glazed, and the roofs without are covered with red pantiles. So far there seem to be authentic data for such a picture. It would be vain to attempt in many instances to assign the fragments found in excavations to particular buildings. Roach Smith, however, was of opinion that a large fragment sculptured with the three seated goddesses, the _Deae Matres_, found in Hart Street, Crutched Friars, and now in the Guildhall, "stood on the outside of a temple dedicated to these popular divinities." [Illustration: FIG. 40.--END OF A ROMAN TOMB FOUND IN LONDON.] [Illustration: FIG. 41.--LEADEN CIST.] [Illustration: FIG. 42.--PLATE OF FIGURED GLASS FOR DECORATION.] [Illustration: FIG. 43.--ROMAN INSCRIPTION.] The illustration of a tomb is made up from fragments in the British Museum found in the east wall (Figs. 38 and 39). A large stone, about two feet high, found fifty years ago below Clement's Lane, Lombard Street, bearing "a few letters of the sounding words PROVINCIA BRITANNIAE," was thought by the same authority to have stood above a civil basilica. This most important inscription was lodged at the Guildhall, but has disappeared. I have Roach Smith's original sketch of it, and a letter asking Fairholt to go and draw it more carefully. But in his _Roman London_ he complains that it could not be found. Fortunately, there is a second careful drawing of the stone in the Archer Collection at the British Museum, and from this my figure is made.[219] Following the model of Silchester, it is quite probable that a Christian church stood in a main street on such a site as the present St. Peter's upon Cornhill. The Forum, as has been said, probably lay north of London Stone, which may have been the golden milestone of London. Wren thought that the Prætorium occupied the ground between the two west gates; but the Tower site seems even more probable. Bagford refers to the discovery of some Roman water-pipes in Creed Lane after the fire, which were "carried round a bath that was built in a round form with niches at an equal distance for seats."