Gravestone

Small limestone gravestone with a Latin inscription: 'D M GRATA DAGOBITI FIL AN XL SOLINVS CONIVGI KAR F C'. This translates as 'To the Gods of the Departed. Grata, daughter of Dagobitus, aged 40. Solinus had this made for his dear wife.'
Grata's name is Latin, meaning 'welcome', 'pleasing' or 'dear'. Her father's name is British and her husband's name may also be. This is an interesting demonstration of the influence of Roman culture on some British people. It seems likely that Dagobitus was from a family that had lived in Britain since before the Roman conquest in AD 43, but he had given his daughter a Roman name. Grata, Dagobitus and Solinus were not Roman citizens, nor were they enslaved or freedpersons. They were free-born people who spoke Latin and had enough money to commission a gravestone.
Given Grata's age, she may have been married to Solinus for well over 20 years.
The stone is banded shelly oolitic limestone, middle Jurassic (Bathonian), from the south Cotswolds, possibly Bibury stone.
The gravestone was found in 1837 during excavations for a sewer at London Wall near Moorgate.