Roman Tombstone

An inscibed Roman tombstone now at All Hallows by the Tower Crypt Museum, London. "This tombstone depicts a couple, although the woman's head is now missing, and it beas the inscription: Demetrius, to Heraclia his wife (set up the stone) at the expense of her own estate as a memorial to her. During the excavations for Tibury docks between 1882 and 1886, this stone was found on the river foreshore and was put in a local Port of London Authority foreman's office. Here it stayed, unremarked for 50 years, until noticed by a visitor to the office in 1932. It is possible that this visitor was Rev'd 'Tubby' Clayton, Vicar of [All Hallows] at the time. It was then kept at Trinity Square before passing to the then London Museum, housed in Kensington Palace. At the restoration of All Hallows after wartime damage, it was brought back here for display. It has returned to rest very close to the place it was set up in the 1st Century..."