Element record MCC2679 - Tombstone from St John's Abbey Wall

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Roman tombstone fragment from St John's Abbey Wall

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Grid reference TL 9990 2473 (point)
Map sheet TL92SE
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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Fragment, 5x5' of the right side of a Purbeck marble tombstone; found in 1906 in the Abbey Wall, on the site of St John's Abbey. Now in Colchester Museum. <1>

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  • <1> Monograph: Collingwood, R.G.. 1965. The Roman Inscriptions of Britain: Inscriptions on stone. I. p68.

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Mar 20 2007 12:26PM

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