A ROMAN woman living around 150-200 AD has become the earliest named Buckinghamshire resident ever to be recorded, Archaeologists say.
Siitomina, who is thought to have lived at the Yewden Villa in Hambleden, carved her name into a pot.
It was found at the same site as a mass infant burial - which archaeologists believe housed a Roman brothel.
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Dr Eyers said the fact she was able to write was surprising because the Romans “didn't like the local population getting too clever by being literate”.
She added it was even more unlikely considering she was a rural woman.
There were 70 styluses – an early form of pen - found on site.
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