Record number: CHEGM: 1999 6 95

Object name: inscribed tombstone

Description: Top right-hand corner of a tombstone, much worn.

Period: Roman

Place found: North Wall (East), Chester

Date: 1887

Material: stone

Dimensions: height 17 inches; width 11 inches

Inscription: G F CLA / S SAV / XXX
...] G(ai) f(ilius) Cla(udia tribu) [...]s Sav(aria) [...] xxx [...
...sone of Gaius, of the Claudian voting-tribe, from Savaria, lived 30 years...
Savaria was a Claudian colony in Upper Pannonia. While Savaria provided recruits for the Second Legion Adiutrix, it also furnished them for other legions after the Second had left for Britain. So the man commemorated on this stone may just as well have belonged to the Twentieth Legion. Latin