Julia Velva's tombstone as an entry point

Julia Velva: A Roman Lady from York uses one tombstone to open a wider study of Roman York. The monument preserves two named people and a rare contemporary image of domestic life, making it a starting point for questions about the city's past. It was found in 1922. The author connects that discovery to an elderly attendee at one of his early 1980s classes, who recalled watching the tombstone being raised when he was a boy.