The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29
1oypON's OLD TOWER.
,.,eut strange and Interesting Dis
oo,aries in the Ancient Pile.

o,ories in the Ancient Pile.
From the London Graphic.
-,. .,,f,5.ng of the new guard room in
j.. inner bluey of the tower of London
ts5 10 strange and interesting dis
~ and enhanced the mystery and 70
We which have gathered for centuries
mi lis gray walls and battlements.
-ts new guard room occupies the space
,..,.s4p fae bloody tower and the white
amer upon the right as you enter the
,.,sr ward. and in preparing its founda-
.sn q sulterranean passage was discov-
sr.d l5r to he accurate, rediscovered, for
i,s evfsfenee was known before), extend
,,g from the moat near the traitors gate
beneath ST. Thomas tower, in the direction
nj the southwest angle of the white tow
The MASSAGE is lined throughout with
Norman masonry and has a level floor
!, was evident at once, therefore, that i
rss mol drain or culVert, for in that
,,se il would have had a rounded bottom;
ooi if became a matter Of interest to
f1ow il both ways, toward the moat and
inward the white tower, for the purpose
Al aseertlning whether it communicated
maer forming thus an outlet to the moat
nam the lower portion of the keep where
i The dungeons are situated. 1t seemed most
4 meIv thar this should be the case, but
gpeetation has been disappointed. The
rssase does, indeed, lead to a dungeon,
eei a most horrible one, but there is no
Wnmunicadon with the white tower. 1t
rus straight from the moat into the dun
g5n but the dungeon is completely iso-
lied from all parts OF the fortress, and
ig communication with the upper air is
tra shaft which descends into the pass
aga
By permission of the office of works a
representative Of the Daily Graphic was
allowed to descend the shaft and inspect
The passage and the dungeon under the
enhance Of MIR. May, the clerk of the
works. Arriving st the tower and pre-
sndng his pass at the Office of Mr.. May
mat eeuuaman first exhibited to his visitor
in the little yard behind his office the OBJ
jecs discovered in clearing out the shaft
and passage. These consist mainly Of
masses OF green-glazed ware such as was
common throughout the Middle Ages; sew
ga broken brown jugs. known as bellar-
mines, and pieces of colored delft and Full
ham ware-all, no doubt, fragments of the
broken utensils of the garrison, thrown
down the shaft after the dungeon had
CEASED 10 be used, in Elizabethan times
and later. More interesting than these
relics are numbers of cannon balls, of
stone and of iron, which were found in
F. tie excavation. Some of the iron balls
have marks on them. One has been found
marked with the letter r." To others
pieces of bone and timber are still ad-
hng. Il is believed, with great prob
ability that some al least of these round
shot We're fired at the tower by the Pro-
@J2nt rebels under Sir Thomas Wyatt
The r mark on one of the balls NAV be
ta Of ne arsenal at Rochester, to which
1e rebels had access before advancing on
london
Wyatt. as is well known, headed a re-
Nloh of kentish men when the fear
HTt1d that the Spaniards were coming to
WlqatI the realm after the Queen had
81 Aer heart on the marriage with Philip
SPAN The stirring tale is briefly told
by Green.
The ships in the Thames submitted to
sezed by the Insurgents A party of
Ue tram bands of London, who marched
g@Ief The Duke of Norfolk against them,
1es1iled 10 The rebels in a mass. with
Folts OF A Wyatt. A Wyatt! We are all
Laslsnmeu. Had the insurgents moved
gI-Aiy on the capital it's gates would
nave been flung open and success would
nave been assured. But in the critical
moment Nary was saved by her uueenIy
wI'a5e Riding boldly to the Guild Hall
que appealed with a mans voice 10 the
oyalty Of the citizens, and when Wyatt
apifarod on the Southwark bank the
ofidse was secured" Wyatt pushed on up
me river crossed at Kingston, turned
VatA on London, and was finally defeated
ana uidae prisoner at Temple Bar Il
nave Kept touch" ne cried at The gate.
out ms adherents within were unable to
make lle promised division in his favor,
ana wyatt was sent to the tower and be-
u'''eI. IL seems probable that the can
tUu BATS now discovered We're fired either
w me ships in the river or from the other
sue ny the artillery which Wyatt had
WIN MN on his march. But the tower,
yea on lis most vulnerable Side, the river
i'0uN was impregnab}e TO any force of
l,V' % artillery which Wyatt could bring
o7'-ilSl IT, The bones which adhere 10
s'"s OF the cannon shot seem to tell of
'''A7 execution dOne-ghastly relics, may
" some of the garris on who fell n the
oom01rjmcrt
One Of the most interesting finds was a
~ OF Roman cement, in which was i'm
' v-'-." tArec Of the wei known tiles with
I'm ae Roman architects banded their
- .Ae cement $, as usual of extreme
co. .s5 WIKI this were portions Of the
- '- lJ pYcaust and broken vessel of
lo1ia0 "a trenwa e. There never was any
~, ,'. '..9 'hat a Roman fortress existed
S.r size Of the over; tradition has been
.1-. to that effect. The Roman wall
MI On touched The river at he point
c. over stands. and Roman ma
~ u'd uo'eily lies at the ase of some
90. e '%-r ng medieval walls. The dis
I9a n these Eoman rena MS c-ose to