Westonbirt with Lasborough

Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1976.

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WESTONBIRT WITH LASBOROUGH

(12 miles S.W. of Cirencester)

An inscribed gabled tombstone was found at Bowldown Farm (ST 839926) before 1779. (fn. 1) See Beverstone for another inscribed tombstone from Nesley Farm, adjacent on the E. Roman coins are said to have been found at Bowldown, (fn. 2) and a Roman villa is believed to have existed at Lasborough (about ST 820940). (fn. 3)

Footnotes

  • 1. Formerly at Kingscote House; now lost. RIB, I, No. 134.
  • 2. Arch, XIX (1821), Pl. xii.
  • 3. Lysons, The Romans in Gloucestershire (1860), 42.