88 THE ROMAN STATIONS OF DERBYSHIRE. 
station are visible, one in the centre of each side, and the founda- 
tion of a building about twenty-five yards square (unless very 
recently removed), is visible in the area in the south-western half 
of the station. 
Just outside the east angle of the castrum, a few years before 
Watson described it, there was found an inscribed centurial stone, 
the face of which is sixteen inches by twelve. It is now built up 
over the doorway of the house of the person who farms the land 
(Booth), and the inscription, which has avsae on each side, and 
a moulding round it, is— 
cue. fF 
FRISIAVO 
AV Ver 
ALIS. 
t.¢., C(o)ho(rtis) I. Frisiavo(num) centuria Val(erit) Vitalis. The 
reversed C is the usual symbol for cezfuria. The interpretation is 
simply “‘ The century (or company) of Valerius Vitalis, of the first 
cohort of the Frisians” (made this), thus showing that the same 
cohort which at one time garrisoned Manchester, was at another 
time stationed here, and built the cas¢vwm. Some time prior to 
1851, “‘ Captain de Hollingworth, Mr. Dearden, and Mr. Shaw,” 
who were making an examination of the site, found the upper left- 
hand corner of what had been a large inscribed tablet ; * probably 
one of those put up over the arches of the gateways. The only 
letters remaining were— 
MP 
the abbreviation of Zmperatori, usually commencing these inscrip- 
tions, which were dedicated to the reigning Emperor. This 
fragment was preserved by Captain de Hollingworth at his resi- 
dence, Hollingworth Hall, according to information given to me, 
on the site, of the castrum in 1874. 
* Vol. 7, ‘‘ Journal of Brit. Archzeological Association,” p. 17. 
