Of course, Lincoln's 5th-/6th-century church not only evidence for continuing Romano-British Christianity in eastern Britain e.g. in c. 600, Pope Gregory sent St Augustine the relics of Sixtus II to replace those of an unknown British St Sixtus whose cult he encountered...
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Must have been a great find
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I wonder if there are sketches?
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There's one, drawn after the partial collapse of the upper storey; it was apparently exposed by an enterprising inn owner who illicitly was digging into the castle mound to expand his property...!pic.twitter.com/JDP6MXg6I8
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There's another. I bought this 1836 Day & Haghe lithograph of the Western Entrance into Ancient Lindum inscribed to John, Earl Brownlow by Samuel Tuke in a Lincoln auction last night. I cannot find any other copy of it, which is intriguing ...pic.twitter.com/vaLQMEoNaH
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a great find
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I think it may be: it shows better detail than the engraving from The Gentleman's Magazine, the whole in a slightly less catastrophic state of collapse; possibly drawn just as they realised they'd better backfill it to avoid worse disasters!
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Just tracked down one at Belton House in the National Trust Collection; that would be a likely spot to find one, given it was Earl Brownlow's house and the lithograph is inscribed to him.http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/433935
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This is marvellous - thank you! May I use your picture in a blog post about this?
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