ABSTRACT
T H E Temple of Mithras lay in one of the largest single bomb-damaged areas at the City’s centre. Here the block bounded on the west by Sise Lane, on the north by Queen Victoria Street and Bucklersbury, on the east by Walbrook, on the south by Cannon Street had been almost completely destroyed, i f acres in all (44, 45). The site as a whole was one on which the excavators had long cast covetous eyes, for in relation to the early city it was one of great potential importance; but it was deeply covered with bomb-rubble and other obstructions and there was very little room in which to work. In 1951, Mr. Owen Campbell Jones, the architect, whose firm had long taken a practical interest in the antiquities of Roman London, very kindly informed the Council that plans were being prepared for a new building for the area. A beginning was then made on a series of cuttings east-to-west across it in such vacant spaces as were available (Fig. 22).
