Eboracum workshops growing up outside the fortress to supply the needs of the 5,000 troops garrisoned there. Production included military pottery until the mid-3rd century, military tile kilns have been found in the Aldwark-Peasholme Green area, glassworking at Coppergate, metalworks and leatherworks producing military equipment in Tanner Row. In the Roman period, Eboracum was the major manufacturing centre for Whitby Jet. Known as "gagates" in Latin, it was used from the early 3rd century as material for jewelry and was exported from here throughout Britain and into Europe. Examples found in York take the form of rings, bracelets, necklaces, and pendants
Dog Latin Labour's Lost", includes a reference to dog Latin: Thomas Jefferson mentioned dog Latin by name in 1815: A once-common schoolboy doggerel which, though very poor Latin, would have done a tolerable job of reinforcing the rhythms of Latin hexameters: Insofar as this specimen can be translated, it is as follows: The meter uses Latin vowel quantities for the Latin parts, and to some extent follows English stress in the English parts. Another variant has similar lines in a different order, with the following variants: The meaning here is "The storm rose up and overturned the boat" and "Except for John