SDO9929 - 'Roman Britain in 1970: Inscriptions' Britannia

Brief catalogue of Roman inscriptions and graffito discovered during 1972. This includes the following entries for Dorchester (on page 295), reproduced here in full. Dorchester (SY691908). Shale object 48 by 48.5 by 5 mm, with broken edges and cut down from a larger piece; found in 1970 on Dorchester Prison site. With six lines of graffiti (Fig 16) the first may be read as ]..LACTABPVSA[… (with B and S reversed). The remaining five lines are largely repetitive and seem to be part of a writing exercise. In the middle of line 4 a horned animal has been depicted. p295 Object drawn by R P Wright (fig 16).