More information : During alterations to the property of E Spoor at
Clavering Place (centred NZ 249638), Newcastle upon Tyne "some few
years" before 1864, an excavation revealed"... at a depth of 5ins,
several trenches cut parallel to each other in the solid clay, from
north to south. In these trenches was found a mixture of pottery,
human bones (some apparently burnt) charcoal, clay and soil with a
slab inscribed COH I, THRACVM". Collingwood and Wright referred to
the slab (No 1323) as a building stone of the First Cohort of
Thracians. Now in Museum of Ants, Newcastle upon Tyne. Hist of
Northum referred to the "mixture of pottery" (which was presented
to the Soc of Ants Newcastle by E Spoor) as "fragments of Samian
ware, amphorae, mortaria". (1-3)
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