Nantonius • Orbiotalis v. s. l. m., or lastly, by a transposition of 

 the fourth line, to follow the first, as suggested by Mr. C. Roach 

 Smith, Matribus • Orbis • totalis • Marcus Nantonius v. s. l. m. 



Mr. Procter then read a paper on the result of the examination of 

 a tumulus lately opened at Sowerby, near Thirsk. The investigation 

 was begun by Lady Frankland Eussell, and continued by the York- 

 shire Antiquarian Club. The tumulus is 140 yards in circumference 

 and 18 feet high. Three male skeletons were found in it, laid E. and 

 W., but two of them with their heads to the E. and one to the W. 

 There were discovered also masses of calcined bones, fragments of 

 Roman pottery, three Roman coins of a late age and a small fragment 

 of Samian ware. Near one of the skeletons was found the boss of a 

 shield of the ordinary Saxon character, seven inches across, composed 

 of iron, the brass rivets stiU remaining by which it had been attached 

 to the wood. The head of a spear, seven inches in length, lay by the 

 side of this skeleton, and the remains of a knife or dagger of iron 

 across the hip of the second. Portions of broken urns were found 



