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Object type: Carved panel
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 269
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Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
Carved panel with figure and inscription, now in Chedworth Roman Villa Museum. Found in 1906 near Lemington Grange, three quarters of a mile north-east of Moreton-in-Marsh, and submitted to the British Museum by Mrs Howard Warden. An index card survives in the British Museum, where it is entered under Moreton-in-Marsh. A rubbing or 'squeeze' of the inscription is attached to the index card, and there is also the note of a letter from a 'C.M.R', dated 16 May 1907. This letter includes a comment that the stone is 'very like a Saxon tombstone of the eighth or ninth century'. A hand-written note on the card adds 'squeeze of A-S insci. on graveslab, Gloucs.'. However, while checking the evidence for discovery, Michael Hare was able to establish that the rubbing or 'squeeze' on the British Museum index card and the inscription on the Lemington carving at Chedworth Roman Villa were, in fact, one and the same. This inscription reads DEA REGINA or DEA ROMA (see references below). The carving is, therefore, not Anglo-Saxon but Roman. The panel depicts a goddess standing within an aedicule and a full description is in Henig 1993, 32, cat. 94.
