| Summary : Roman tombstone recorded before 1813 in a causeway leading to a footbridge over the Bell Burn, about 0.25 mile north of Binchester. It was engraved `D(is) M(anibus) s(acrum) Nem(onius) Montanus dec(urio) uixit ann(os) XL Nem(onius) Sanctus fr(ater) et coher(edes) ex testamento fecer(un)t.' The translation reads `Sacred to the spirits of the departed: Nemonius Montanus, decurion, lived 40 years. Nemonius Sanctus, his brother, and his joint heirs setthis up in accordance with his will'. The tombstone has been lost. |
More information : (NZ 210 320) 1039. Tombstone, 47 x 19in, seen in, or before, 1813 in
a causeway leading to a footbridge over the Bell Burn, about 0.25 mileN of Binchester. Now lost. Reproduced from Lysons. CIL vii 429. LS
722. Lysons Rel Brit Rom ipt 4 pl iii 3. Skene AA i (1822) 142.
D(is) M(anibus) s(acrum)
Nem(onius) Montanus dec(urio)
uixit ann(os) XL Nem(onius)
Sanctus fr(ater) et coher(edes)
ex testamento fecer(un)t
Sacred to the spirits of the departed: Nemonius Montanus, decurion,
lived 40 years. Nemonius Sanctus, his brother, and his joint heirs setthis up in accordance with his will".
2. Nem is probably Nem(onius), of which Holder and Schulze list
numerous examples. RPW. (1)
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