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XXVI. An Account of a Roman Sepulchre, found near York, in 1768. By John Burton, M.D.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

John Burton
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In the winter, A. D. 1768, some workmen digging in a piece of ground adjoining to the foot-road from York to Holdgate, lying betwixt that city and Severus's Hills, about 250 yards from the walls, north of the present road to Burrowbridge and Aldburgh, near Severus's Hill, at about two feet depth found they had broke into an hollow place; and hoping to find a sum of money hidden therein, they soon searched it, and found some urns with ashes and earth.

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Archaeologia , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , 1773 , pp. 177 - 180
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1773

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page 178 note [a] Several such tombs were found about 1720 at Strasbourg, formed of four tiles, each one foot nine inches and a half, by sixteen inches and a quarter thick, with a ridge at their two extremities, and each inscribed L E G. VIII. A V G. Within these tombs was an urn containing some bones, and some glass and earthen, lacrymatories and lamps: one of the glass vessels had on the foot a figure of Victory, writing on a shield, V. P. i. e. vota publica, with the legend Gloriæ Augustorum. Mr. Schœpslin understands these Augusti of Marcus Aurelius and Aurelius Verus, to whose time he fixes these tombs, belonging to the 8th Legio Augusta which gave its name to Argentoratium, or Strasbourg, according to Ptolemy, R.G.

page 179 note [b] Thoresby, Ducat. Leodiensis, p. 562, 563.

page 179 note [c] Caesar Comment. Lib. VIII. cap. 78.

page 179 note [d] Britan. Roman. p. 80.

page 180 note [e] Britan. Roman. p. 51.

page 180 note [f] Vit. Agricol. Cap. 13. Horseley's Brit. Rom. p. 21.

page 180 note [g] Dio, Lib. LX. p. 677.

page 180 note [h] Horseley's Brit. Rom. p. 80. Isaacson's Chron. p. 189.

page 180 note [i] Tacitus, Annal. Lib. XIV. Cap. 38.