Note 13 — ITER DOMESTICUM. I.
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The Duke of Ancaster, 1726, showed me a large brass Hadrian, but defaced, dug up in his garden, near the tumulus at the end: he says more coins have been found about the stone pits in the park. That tumulus perhaps was the burial-place of Grime, who denominated the place Grimsthorp, or Grime’s farm, probably some great Saxon, or Dane. I observe there are a few more tumuli upon hills hereabouts, as one on the heath by Corby. I think the country hereabouts extremely fine and delightful: an excellent kind of stone is dug up in Grimsthorp park; and here and there a vein of good marble of a darkish colour: the blueish marble lies uppermost in a bed of about four foot; then a bed of twenty foot thick, of an excellent whitish stone, with reddish veins where they can cut blocks of any dimensions. Anno 1731, in digging in the court yard, they found an old brass seal, a coat of arms, two bars ermine; the epigraphe, as well as I could make it out, thus:
