Slab 3 ft. long by 2 ft. 4 in. high. Letters 6 in. high, well cut. Of the letters recorded, the fourth in the first line was either an O or a C; Roach Smith thought it a C and was probably right.
Num(ini) C [æsaris] . . . prov[incia] . . . . Brita[nnia] . . . "To the deity of the Emperor, set up by the province of Britain . . ." The interpretation is not absolutely certain: "To the deity of the Emperor and the province of Britain" has been suggested by a high authority, and the C in line 1 has been taken to stand for Claudius, which is quite possible but ought not to be assumed as in any way certain. It does, however, seem possible that the inscription marked a temple of Emperor-worship erected by the Provincial Council of Britain; though to take it as proving that the Provincial Council met in London would be illegitimate.
¶Found in 1850, in Nicholas Lane, near Cannon Street [C. R. Smith, Gent. Mag., 1850, p. 114; Coll. Antiq., III, p. 257; Rom. Lond., p. 29]. Lost from the Guildhall Museum by 1859. A drawing by Archer is in the British Museum [Lethaby, Londinium, p. 186]; the Guildhall has a drawing made at the time of discovery [CIL. VII, 22].