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Gentleman's Magazine 1861 part 2 p.530
[unim]portant. One seemed to be a small brass of the Lower
Empire. Among other fragments of Samian there was one
stamped AEMILIANVS. Some large oak cisterns, puddled with
clay brought from a distance, were also found. The first two
were supposed to be coffins, but a third proved to be six
feet square. Their boards were about 1 3/4 in. thick, and
were fastened tgether with wooden pegs.
In the same street some other relics of Roman dominion had
also been found not long before. There was a little glass
lachrymotary entire, and many fragments of Samian and other
pottery, among them the following:- a mortarium, with the
spout; a large piece, stamped in two places with AVSTIMANV;
a Samina mortarium with a hole through it, and a lion's
mouth through which the liquid ran; a piece of vessel made
of a dark slate-coloured material, glazed, very hard and
thin, slightly ornamented with diagonal dashes placed close
together, and, to Mr. Wake's eye, of finer pottery than the
best Samian ware that he had seen.
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cross
St Bridget's Church
Beckermet
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Cross, St Bridget's Church,
Beckermet
Mr. L. [Longstaffe] also exhibited careful rubbings of the
cross in Beckermont churchyard, Cumberland. They were made
by the Rev. Frederic Addison, of Cleator, who has no theory
on the subject, but who is decidedly of opinion that the
inscription remains to be read, and that the versions of
Haigh and Maughan cannot be supported. Mr. Haigh's drawing
was compared, and the members confessed themselves unable to
trace or consider possible some of the principal features
therein delineated. The identification of Piegbalech, the
burial place of Tuda, bishop of Lindisfarne, with
Beckermont, cannot therfore be accepted without better
evidence of the stone being his monument.
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