Note 79 — ITER ROMANUM. V.
Reading edition
Captain Pownal gave me a brass
Fausta
, wife of Constantine, found in a barrow near Lincoln,
SPES
.
Mr. S. Buck gave me a Crispus Nob. C. brass, found in the rubbish of a house, reverse, BEATA TRANQUILLITAS P L C. struck at Lincoln.
Captain Pownal told me they found coins, scatteringly, as they dug up a Roman tumulus near Lincoln, anno 1727.
Sept. 2, 1731, I accompanied Mr. Roger Gale, in his journey to Yorkshire, as far as Lincoln, (Dr. Knight of Bluntsham with us) just before they had dug up the foundation of the Roman east gate toward Banovallum: the stones exceeding large, cramped with iron. Lord Burlington was present.
This summer they found two Roman tombs by the quarries on the same Banovallum road; four great stones set together like a coffin, and one on the top: there were in it the bones of a man, with urns, lacrymatories, and coins.