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Shown on the stone is 'the panyer boy'. A panyer was a basket carried by errand boys at the time.
https://www.london-walking-tours.co.uk/secret-london/panyer-boy.htm
The claim that this was the highest point of the City of London is said in this article to have been disproved since, but who knows how high Ludgate Hill really was before so much more weight was put on it.