Centurial building stone

Record number: CHEGM: 1999 6 22

Object name: centurial building stone

Description: Centurial building stone, with right margin intact, left broken.

Period: Roman

Place found: Bridge Street/Pierpoint Lane, Chester

Date: 1858

Material: stone

Dimensions: height 14 inches; width 6 inches

Inscription: ...VCINI
...]ucini
The century of Abucinus (built this)
The inscription can be restored from a stone, now lost, inscribed CABVCIN, which was found about 1850 in Commonhall Street. Latin


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