“The forme of a kill in which the olde Romans’ lamps, urnes, and other earthen pottes and vessels was burnt, and some left in the kill; and that within a unstired, loamy ground about 26 foot deep near about the place where the Market House stood in Oliver’s tyme, the discovery made anno 1677 at the digging the foundacion of the north east part of St. Paull’s, London, among gravel pitts and loam pitts, where the ground had been at tymes raised over it 3 or 4 tymes, and so many 8 foote storyes or depths of coffins lay over the loamy kill, the lowest coffins made of chalk; and this supposed to be before or about Domitian the emperor’s tyme. “Of these (kilns) 4 severall had been made in the sandy loam on the ground in the fashion of a cross foundacion and only this height standing, viz. 5 foot from topp to bottom and better; and as many feet in breadth; and had no other matter for its form and building but the outward loame as it naturally lays, crusted hardish by the heat burning the loame redd like brick. The floor in the middle supported by and cut out of loame, and helped with old-fashioned Roman tyles shards, but very few, and such as I have seen used for repositorys for urns in the fashion of like ovens, and they plastered within with a reddish mortar or tarris; but here was no mortar, but only the sandy loam for cement: “observed and thus described “by JO^N CONYERS, Apothecary.” In accordance with the above description, the sketch by Conyers shows also the four kilns placed crosswise, leaving ample space in the centre for the workmen. The vessels found in the kiln are thus described by Conyers, who also made sketches of them, which are preserved along with his MS., and have been engraved in the “Collectanea Antiqua:”-- “1. 1 quart earthen dish.--2. 2 gallons, whitish.--3. 4 quart bason, whitish.--4. 8 ounce censer or lamp, whitish earth.--5. 2 quart colinder, whitish.--6. 2 pint lipp waterpott.--7. Lamp, or censer, reddish.--8. 3 pint urne.--9. 3 quarts urne, whitish.--10. 2 ounce lamp, gilded with electrum.--11. 2 quart, white.--12. 1 pint bottle.--13. 2 pint black urne.--14. 1 pint urne, black.--15. 6 ounce urne.--16. 3 quart urne, blewish.--17. Half pint urne, electrum Britan.--18. 1 pint dish, blewish.--19. 1 ounce urne, whitish.--20. 3 ounce urne, cinamon collour.--All these a sort of earth almost like crucibles, except the black, will endure the fire like brass, as in this day in use about Poland.”