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but if so, they have during the last thirty-five years been removed 
from the surface, and can only be found underground. He also 
Says (page 152): “ Three of the ‘sides’ (of the castrum) remain 
nearly perfect.” Though far from perfect, the earthern rampart, 
upon which stood the stone wall, is still plainly visible on the 
three sides named. Mr. Bateman, on the same page, says that 
“the fences of the surrounding fields are built of squared sand- 
stone, pieces of tiles,” etc. These still remain much the same, and 
were the walls searched, it is far from improbable that altars and 
other inscribed stones might be feund, perhaps with the inscribed 
face built inwards. But to continue Mr. Bateman’s account :— 
“Very recently a bust of coarse sculpture and the base of a 
column, with a moulding running round it, were to be observed 
built up in the walls, whilst a small well in the village is covered 
by a moulded slab of stone.” In April, 1882, the base of a 
circular pillar still remained built up in the wall of the farmyard 
on the spot, and I had word sent to me thata few years previously 
the man who built the house ploughed up stones morticed, or 
grooved, to fit into each other. In 1872 a quantity of pottery was 
found on the site in cutting a trench, which passed into the hands 
of N. H. Ashton, Esq., of Castleton, but so far I have been unable 
to ascertain if any potter’s stamps have been found. One Roman 
toad (Doctor Gate) is plainly traceable, connecting this station 
with that at Melandra Castle, and a second (Batham Gate) con- 
nects it with Buxton. 
It is most unfortunate that no complete specimen of the inscribed 
tiles made at the station has been discovered, or, if discovered, pre- 
served, as it renders us ignorant of the name of the cohort that 
garrisoned the station. My own idea is that it was a cohort of the 
Brittones, a people of Belgic Gaul. But as I shall no doubt be 
asked to give my reasons for sucha statement, I must enter shortly 
into the subject. At F uligno (the ancient Lulginium) in Centra] 
Italy, there was discovered an interesting inscription, which is now 
preserved in the Palazzo Comunale of the town. It is fragmentary, 
but the remaining portion is as follows :— 
