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Monument Number 58442
Hob Uid: 58442
Location : North Yorkshire Ryedale Nunnington
Grid Ref : SE6900078000
Summary : A Roman coffin found in 1616 containing an inhumation. This find has been interpreted as indicating the possible site of a Roman settlement or villa.
More information : (SE 6931 7857) Roman Sarcophagus found AD. 1616 [NAT]. (1) 720. Stone coffin, 7 ft. long, 2 ft. 3 in. high, 2 ft. 3 in. deep, found about three years before 1619 in a field at Eastness, Hovingham, Yorks, containing an inhumation. E.R. Drawn in 1665 by Sir William Dugdale. Gough in 1789 recorded that it was still at the mansion-house there. Sought in vain in 1877 by Watkin and in 1929 by Dr. J. L. Kirk, who had cross-trenches cut in the Chapel Field to test the site marked on the O.S. map (see Gazetteer). Now lost. Reproduced (at 3/4) from Dugdale. Titia Pinta uixit ann(os) XXXVIII et Val(erio) Adiutori uixit ann(os) XX et Varialo uixit ann(os) XV Val(erius) Vindicianus coniugi et fili(i)s f(aciendum) c(urauit) `(To) Titia Pinta (who) lived c38 years and to Valerius Adjutor (who) lived 20 years and to Varialus (who) lived 15 years Valerius Vindicianus had (this) set up to his wife and sons.' 1. PINTIA Gough. 3. VARIALO Dodsworthe, Dugdale; VARIOLO Gale, Hueb. 4. CONIVCIE T FILIS Dodsworthe, Dugdale; CONIVGI ET FILIIS Gale; CONIVGE Gough. (2)

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Source details : OS 25" map, 1911
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Source details : Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1965, p 241 (Collingwood and Wright)
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Source Number : 2a
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Source details : CIL vii 266, EE iv p 199, Camden Britannia, 1607, (Bodlian Manuscript, Smith 1, drawing by R Dodsworth inserted after p 578)
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Source Number : 2b
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Source details : Bodlian Manuscript, Dodsworth, p 160, 214
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Source Number : 2c
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Source details : College of Arms, Manuscript, T Dugdale, Yorkshire Arms, p 65
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Source Number : 2d
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Source details : T Gale Ant It, p 26-27 (from Camden MSS.) Horsely 314 quoting Gale
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Source Number : 2e
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Source details : Gough's Camden, 1789, vol iii, p 85, 1806, vol iii, p 328
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Source Number : 2f
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Source details : Watkin A J, vol xxxiv, 1877, p 196 with fig
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Source Number : 2g
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Source details : Mary Kitson, Clark Gazetteer, p 79
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Source details : NK 9
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Roman
Display Date : Roman
Monument End Date : 410
Monument Start Date : 43
Monument Type : Coffin, Inhumation, Villa
Evidence : Find, Conjectural Evidence

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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (North Yorkshire)
External Cross Reference Number : 310
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (North Yorkshire)
External Cross Reference Number : 310.01
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SE 67 NE 1
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