Show stones run back to roman occupation to be used in london transport memorial london transport has decided to erect a memorial to a roman procurator who will be commemorated by two stones built into the wall of the substation sub station at tower hill when the metropolitan half of the inner circle railway was extended to the tower of london station in 1832 1882 73 feet of roman wall were destroyed the only consolation for the loss says the london times is that the wall was photographed carefully it is shown by the commissioners ners for historical monuments in their third volume on roman london the link with the district railway at mansion house was completed in 1884 whereupon the tower station was closed and mark lane station took look its place the site remained undisturbed until recently when a substation sub station was built on the cutting to the east of the old tower station A rich store of roman remains was unearthed by the excavators excava tors most remarkable being a stone bearing beautiful and perfectly preserved lettering archeologists archaeologists reported that a similar stone had been found on the site in 1852 it was in the british museum but had not been identified when the two relics were placed together it was seen that they were part of an altar tomb erected by julia lacata daughter of indus in memory of her husband fabius aepinus clas who was sent to britain as procurator in A D 62 after the outbreak ot of rebellion the london passenger transport board agreed to present the second stone to the british museum but they felt that there should be some record of the memorial near the discovery and instructions were given that a replica of the two stones shall be built into the wall of the substation |