Thousands more finds from the site are scattered in conservation laboratories across the country, including the only bear's skull ever found on a London site, the best preserved Roman door, and haunting human remains including the carefully coffined bodies of babies, and a headless corpse slung into a ditch.
This slice of a Roman London where people lived, worked and died, makes the find the most important in decades. The copper alloy vessels, usually found corroded into fragments, are far rarer finds than more durable gold or silver.
Jon Butler, of Pre-Construct archaeology, who only finished work on the site three weeks ago and now faces years of post-excavation work to understand the finds, said: "Not a day passed without something remarkable turning up."
The site's 4th-century well, stuffed with high quality vessels, mostly well preserved, was only emptied a month ago. The sodden timber-lined pit was so full of objects that the excavator had to work standing on one leg to avoid crushing anything. One of the massive concrete piles for the 1960s block punched through one of the basins, but missed the bulk of the hoard by inches.
When she first saw the 20 copper alloy bowls, jugs, buckets, a hanging bowl, cauldrons and ladles, Jenny Hall, a curator and expert on Roman London, was so astonished that she laughed: "I just went around grinning for days," she said. "Nothing remotely like them has ever been found in Britain."
Like so much else on the site, how they got into the well remains a mystery. The site at Draper's Gardens was preserved because the Walbrook river and its tributaries made the site so wet that it remained open ground for centuries, preserving the Roman layer until the 1960s tower was built.
The thousands of finds include 400 boxes of pottery, 600 of bone, jewellery, tools, a carpenter's wooden ruler marked out in both Roman inches and timber measurements, and 1,500 pieces of timber including scores of wooden drainpipes, the door and an intact expanse of floorboards. Together they prove that the riverside site was occupied both far earlier and later than previously believed.
The earliest finds are dated by coins to 62AD, the year after Boudicca's devastating rebellion, and the latest, when the bowls went into the well, to the turmoil of the mid 4th century.
In the early years, it would have been a noisome and reeking place, with tanners, metal workers, bone carvers, and flesh renderers cheek by jowl on a site which flooded with every heavy rain. The top layer, of more luxurious later buildings, was destroyed by the 1960s construction - except for one scrap of mosaic.
The bear may have met his death in the nearby amphitheatre, and been flayed to become a rug, or a trophy skin draped over a regimental standard.
The human remains are more mysterious. The headless skeleton may well be an unsolved murder, and the babies are even more puzzling - buried in a row of carefully made tiny coffins. Babies of the period were usually buried under or around houses, or tucked in with adult burials: these little scraps of humanity are a unique find in London.