THE ROMAN STATIONS OF DERBYSHIRE. gI 
classical deities it need not cause much discussion. We learn, 
however, that the first cohort of the Aquitani were at some period 
in this neighbourhood. ‘They were a French people, the Aqui- 
taine of later times representing their country. From the Riveling 
tabula of Hadrian, we know they were in Britain in a. D. 124, 
and they have left an inscription, the date of which is uncertain, 
at Procolitia, on the Wall of Hadrian in Northumberland. 
The altar has been preserved for nearly two centuries at Haddon 
Hall, and was lately, if not now, in the porch between the outer and 
second court-yards of that building. I unfortunately did not myself 
take its dimensions, and now find there is a conflict of evidence 
onthe point. Lysons’ “Magna Britannia” (Vol. V., p. 205) says 
it is 2 feet 11 inches high ; whilst in the Re/iguary (Vol. XII. for 
1871), it is stated to be ‘‘ 4 feet in height, 154 inches across the 
lettering, and 12 inches in thickness.” Perhaps some of the 
members of the Society can get the correct dimensions.* 
It is singular that nothing approaching to a villa, or a tesselated 
pavement (unless the small and rude fragment found at Brough 
be counted) has been discovered in Derbyshire. 
* Mr. Sleigh has kindly supplied the following measurements of this altar, 
which still stands in tbe inner porch of Haddon Hall. Full height 3 ft. 10 in. ; 
width of the capital and base 1 ft. 7 in. ; width of the plinth 1 ft. 4 in. ; thick- 
ness of the capital and base 1 ft. ; thickness of the plinth 9 in.—Ep. 
