The San Francisco call., 1899-11-17
IN LoNDoN'S TOWER.
Some Curious and Interesting Discov-
cries Made.

The building of the new guard-room in
the inner bailey OF the tower Of London
has led 10 strange and interesting dls,
romance which have gathered for CEN
turieS around its gray walls and battle
ments. The new guard-room occupies
the space between the bloody tower and
the white tower upon the right as you
enter the inner ward, and in preparing
its foundations a subterranean passage
was discovered (or, to be accurate, redls-
covered, for it's existence was known be-
fore), extending from the moat near the
traitors gate beneath ST. Thomas tower.
in the direction OF the southwest angle OF
the white tower. The passage Is lined
throughout with Norman masonry and
has a level floor. II was evident at once,
therefore. that II was not a drain or cul,
vert for in that case II would have had
a rounded bottom; and IL became a mat
ter OF interest 10 follow 1t both ways,
toward the moat and toward the white
tower, for the purpose OF ascertaining
whether IL communicated directly with
the interior OF the white tower, forming
thus an outlet TO the moat from the lower
portion of the keep where the dungeons
II seemed most likely that this should
be the case, but expectation has been dis
appoint ed. The passage does, Indeed. lead
TO a dungeon, and a most horrible one.
but there is no communication with the
white tower. II runs straight from the
moat into the dungeon but the dungeon.
Is completely Isolated from all parts OF
the fortress. and its communication with
the upper air is by a shaft which de-
scends into the passage.
Ry 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
guidance of Mr. May, the clerk of the
eSyorks Arriving at the tower and pre-
senting his pass at the oftlce OF MIR. May,
that gentleman first exhibited TO his visi-
tor in the little yard behind his office the
objects discovered in clearing out the
shaft and passage. These consist mainly
OF masses of n-giaZed ware such
was common throughout the Middle Ages:
several broken brown jugs, known as Del-
larmines. and pieces of GOlored delft and
Fulham ware-ali.. no doubt. fragments
of the broken utensils of the garrison.
thrown down the shaft after the dungeons
had ceased to 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 the 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 adhering. Ii is be-
lieved, with great probability, that some
at least OF these round shot were fired at
the tower by the Protestant rebels under
one of the balls may be that of the ar
senal at Rochester. to which the rebels
had access before marching on London. =
WYATT as is well known, headed re-
bellion of Kentish men when the fear
spread that the Spaniards were coming to
conmer the realm after the Queen had set
her heart on the marriage with Philip OF
Spain The stirring tale is briefly told by
"Thc ships in. the Thames submitted to
be seized by the insurgents. \ party of
the train bands. of London. who marched
under the Duke of Norfolk against them
deserted TO the rebels. in a mass, with
shouts OF 'A.Wyatt! a Wyatt! We are all
Englishmen' Had the insurgents moved
quickly on the capital it's: gates would
have been flung open and success would
have been assured. But I'm the. critical
moment Mary was saved hy her queeniy
courage. Riding boldly to. the Guildhail
she appealed. with. a mans voice. To the
appeared on the Southwark bank the
hridpe was secured" Wyatt pI,shed or
M the river crossed at Kingston. turned
back on London and. was finally defeated
and made prisoner at Temple Rar oT
have kept touch he cried at the. gate
hut his adherents within We're unable To
make the promised diversion in his favor
and Wyatt was sent to the tower and be-
II seems probable that the cannon halls
now discovered were fired either by the
ships in the river or from the other side
by the artillery. which Wyatt had with
him ON. his march. But the tower: even
on its most vulnerable side the river
front. was impregnable to any force OF
foot or artillery which Wyatt could bring
against It. The bones which adhere to
some of the cannon shot seem 70 tell az
some execution done-ghastly relics NAV
be. OF some OF the garrison who fell In.
the bornbardment.
One. of the most. interesting finds was a
mass OF Roman cement in which was i'm
bedded three of the well-known tiles with
which the Roman architects banded fbejr
walls The cement is as usual of extreme
hardness. With this were portions OF the
Roman earthenware.. There never was
any real doubt that Roman fortress ex-