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.
[80] More brass armillæ in the tumuli.
[81] All the fields about Allington, Fosston, &c. are covered over with petrified shells of a particular kind of oyster; they call them there crow-stones.
[82] So Sedetani, a people of Spain, in Silius are called Hedetani; by Ptolemy, Segesta, a town in Sicily, Egesta, &c.
[83] I saw a coin found here, brass, of Claudius; reverse, a soldier with a shield throwing the pile.
[84] The countess of Warwick, whose maiden name was Wray, gave the manor to Magdalen college, Cambridge.
[85] ——Partes ubi se via findit in ambas.
[86] June 7. 1732, Mr. John Ash showed me some Roman coins found at Ludford by Market Raisin, where he says they find very many: it is fourteen miles from Lincoln, and probably a Roman station upon the Fossway going toward the sea: the coins were of Constantius Cl. Gothicus, &c.
[87] In Bede it is called Tunnaceaster, from Tunna the owner, a Saxon, IIII. 22.