Find Spot record 8088/39 - Blue marble tablet from Watergate Street

Part of a slate dedication slab, possibly from a tribune's house. Found west of Bridge Street, on the south side of Watergate Street in 1729, in digging a wine cellar for Dr Dyson. The slab is now lost, but apparently survived until 1771. The dedication is to the divinity of the emperor and the lower part of the slab was apparently decorated (1) & (2).

The dedication is appropriate to a senior officer of the legion (3). RIB i 458.

<1> Thompson Watkin W. T., 1886, Roman Cheshire: A Description of Roman Remains in the County of Chester, p187-189 (Book). SCH2878.

<2> Horsley J, 1732, Britannia Romana, p316-18 (Book). SCH449.

<3> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, p147-148 (Book). SCH3556.

<4> Lawson, P H, 1926, Schedule of the Roman Remains of Chester with Maps and Plans, No 25 (Article in Journal). SCH5956.

<5> Collingwood R G & Wright R P, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain: Volume I, No 458 (Monograph). SCH3235.