Carved memorial (epitaph)

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This fragmentary architectural slab, which bears part of a Latin inscription, may have been set into a wall or building. The inscription, which may have been an epitaph, consists of three incomplete lines of lettering, neatly laid out and separated by guidelines. The surviving letters are ‘..EAED. // [ABINFANTI // [.T]RIXQVEV[A]’.

TRIX in the bottom row indicates that the inscription is in memory of a woman, while AB INFANTI in the middle row suggests she that came here to Whitby as a child. It is possible that she was a member of the Anglo-Saxon monastic community.

Context: Found north of the abbey church on 8 December 1924

Date: Late 8th to early 9th century

Dimensions: h 153mm x w 241mm x d 61mm

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