More information : During alterations to the property of E Spoor at Clavering Place (centred NZ 249638), Newcastle upon Tyne "some few years" before 1864, an excavation revealed"... at a depth of 5ins, several trenches cut parallel to each other in the solid clay, from north to south. In these trenches was found a mixture of pottery, human bones (some apparently burnt) charcoal, clay and soil with a slab inscribed COH I, THRACVM". Collingwood and Wright referred to the slab (No 1323) as a building stone of the First Cohort of Thracians. Now in Museum of Ants, Newcastle upon Tyne. Hist of Northum referred to the "mixture of pottery" (which was presented to the Soc of Ants Newcastle by E Spoor) as "fragments of Samian ware, amphorae, mortaria". (1-3)
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