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English: "The Chancel arch is also Norman and its builders incorporated into the South pillar an altar stone dedicated to Jove. In doing so they destroyed half the inscription but what remains enables the whole of it to be inferred. It was dedicated to Jupiter by a centurion called Titinius Pines, probably in the 3rd century AD. Where the 12th century builders found this altar one would certainly like to know. The likely places are Durnovaria, Roman Dorchester, only 5 miles away, or a small Romano-British villa at Forston, excavated in 1960, little more than a mile from Godmanstone."
Leaflet available at Holy Trinity Church, Godmanstone. <a href="http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/Rbgods.htm" rel="nofollow">www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/Rbgods.htm</a> mentions the stone in its list of the Gods and Goddesses of Roman Britain, as dedicated to Jupiter Optimus Maximus, quoting from the Journal of Roman Studies 1965 "Godmanstone (nr Dorchester, Dorset): altar by Titinius Pines, of [XX V(aleria)] V(ictrix)(?)." |
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