Great Britain -- Antiquities, Roman; Romans -- Great Britain
[Transcribers Note: The bracketed "C" above is printed reversed in the
original.]
Like another centurial stone found some time ago at Holt (Eph. Epigr.
ix. 1035), this was not found _in situ_; the kiln or other structure
into the wall of which it was originally inserted must have been pulled
down and its stones used up again.
The centuries mentioned would of course be units from the Twentieth
Legion at Chester.
(9) Found at Holt late in 1914, a fragment of tile (about 7 x 7 inches)
with parts of two (or three) lines of writing scratched on it.
...LIVITILI..
..IT TAL..
.........
I can offer no guess at the sense of this. The third line may be mere
scratches. I am indebted to Mr. Arthur Acton for sending Nos. 8 and 9 to
me for examination.
(10) Found at Lincoln in 1906, on the site of the Technical Schools
extensions (outside the east wall of the lower Roman town), a fragment
from the lower right-hand corner of an inscribed slab flanked with
foliation, 13 inches tall, 19 inches wide, with 2-inch lettering.
G | _fol_-
| _iat_-
IND | _ion_.
____|__________
No doubt one should prefix L to IND. That is, the inscription ended with
some part of the Romano-British name of Lincoln, Lindum, or of its
adjective Lindensis. From the findspot it seems probable that the
inscription may have been sepulchral.
I am indebted to Mr. Arthur Smith, Curator of the City and County Museum
at Lincoln, for a squeeze. The stone is now in the Museum.
(11) Found in London near the General Post Office in a rubbish-pit (see
above, p. 23), two pieces of wood from the staves of a barrel which
seems to have served as lining to a pit or well. They bear faint
impressions of a metal stamp; (_a_) is repeated twice.
(_a_) [TE]C.PAGA... _and_ ..C.PA..†
(_b_) CS _or_ CB
The first stamp seems to include a name in the genitive, perhaps
_Pacati_, but I do not know what TEC means.
[Transcribers Note: The bracketed [TE] above is a "TE" ligature.]
(12) Found in another rubbish-pit of the same site as No. 11, a plain
gold ring with three sunk letters on the bezel:
Q.D.D
Presumably the initials of an owner. The letters were at first read
O.D.D, but the tail of the Q is discernible.
I am indebted to the Post Office authorities and to Mr. F. Lambert for
a sight of Nos. 11 and 12. The objects are preserved at the General
Post Office.
(13) I add here a note on a Roman milestone found in 1694 near Appleby
and lately refound.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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