Volume 1

The gentleman's magazine library : being a classified collection of the chief contents of The gentleman's magazine from 1731 to 1868. Romano-British remains / edited by George Laurence Gomme.

Date:
1887
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Credit: The gentleman's magazine library : being a classified collection of the chief contents of The gentleman's magazine from 1731 to 1868. Romano-British remains / edited by George Laurence Gomme. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    stone was found an urn of dark-coloured pottery, without any orna- ment or inscription, containing fragments of burnt bones; and lying upon it, but apparently unconnected with it, was a human skeleton, several of which were also discovered near the spot. In the imme- diate neighbourhood have been found, at different times, coins and other antiquities. Yours, etc. S. [1836, Part p. 296.] Another sepulchral monument to a Roman knight, resembling that described in our September number, p. 302, has been found at the same place, Watermoor, near Cirencester. On the 22nd January the workmen digging the foundation of some houses turned up a stone, about a foot below the surface, having the figure of a horse- man, with his spear and shield, the horse trampling a man under his feet. The sculpture is in very bold relief, and the inscription as follows, as nearly as it can be deciphered: [Huebner, p. 30] SEXTUS VALE RIVS GENALIS EQUES ALAE * TR • HAEC CIVIS FRISIAUS TUR GENIALIS AI XXXX—XX II.S.E. EF. C. It is in the possession of Mr. Paish, Duke of York Inn, Cirencester. [1837, Part /., pp. 5S6-5SS.] It becomes my agreeable duty to thank you for your kindness, in having procured for me copies of the very interesting sepulchral monuments found at Watermore, near Cirencester, in 1835 and 1836 ; and I beg to avail myself of the opportunity to send you a few re- marks, which may not perhaps be considered unfit to accompany the engravings of the same, which I hear you intend publishing in your valuable magazine. Though the inscription upon the first of these monuments has been given in the Gentleman's Magazine for September, 1835, P- 3°2> it will be as well to repeat it here, because some alteration in the interpretation of it offered by your correspondent will, perhaps, on inquiry, appear desirable : [Huebner, p. 30] DANNICVS . EQES . ALAE INDIAN . TVR . ALBANI . STIP . XVI . CIVES . RAVR CVR . FVLVIVS . NATALIS . IL FL....AVS . BITVCVS . ER . TESTAME , II . S . E . “ Dannicus, eques Alse Indianoe, turmre Albani, Stipendiorum sedecim, civis Rauricus; curaverunt Fulvius Natalis il [leg. et ?] Flavius Bitucus, heredes testamentarii. Hie situs est ”—i.e. : 6—2
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