84 THE ROMAN STATIONS OF DERBYSHIRE. 
4 OR TIS, PRIS MLE 
.RAEF.EQVIT.CENSITO. . 
BRITTONVM. ANAVION.. 
PROC.AVG.ARMENIAE. MA. 
As I have previously stated (Archaological Journal, Vol. XLI., 
p. 255) the fourth line of this inscription has puzzled many anti- 
quaries, who considered it to refer to a subordinate tribe of the 
Brittones styled Anavionenses. I would read the remaining part 
of the inscription thus:—Prae (/fecto) (Co) hortis, Trib(uno) 
Mil(itum), Prae( fecto) Equit(um) Censito(ri) Brittonum, A Navione, 
Proc(uratori) Aug(usti) Armeniae Ma( joris). The person who was 
named at the commencement of this inscription would thus be 
(amongst the other various offices named) Censitor of the Brittones 
stationed at Vavio. Now, that there was a cohort of the Brittones 
in Derbyshire, we ascertain from the inscription I have before 
alluded to, found at Hopton by Major Rooke in the last century 
(Archeologia, Vol. XII., pp. 1 to 5). It was discovered in a 
barrow called “ Abbot’s Lowe,” covering the top of an urn, which 
was full of burnt bones and ashes. The urn was four feet three 
inches in circumference, and made of coarse baked earth. The 
stone was two feet six inches by one foot eight inches, and about 
nine inches thick, and was a soft yellowish freestone much worn, 
and the inscription consequently much defaced. From Major 
Rooke’s drawing the inscription was— 
Ce Dy ba 
iP Re One 
Livi deh L) 
All that can be made out of this is that a person of the name of 
Gellius who was a prefect of a cohort of Brittones is named. The 
letters LV before BRIT are most puzzling, but they are doubt- 
fully given by Major Rooke. If they were there, it would almost 
seem that the cohort bore the name of Lutudensian, but in that 
case we should look for the abbreviation to follow instead of 
