Gents Mag 1861 part 2 p.530

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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 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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