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(2) That either directly or indirectly, several are dedicated by 
the same person ; thus, C. C. Priscus has four, Acilianus two with 
two slabs, L. C. Maximus has three, T. A. Tutor three, Helstrius 
Novellus two, and Ulpius Titianus two, M. M. Agrippa four. 
(3) They also inform us the native homes of several of the 
officers, e.g., G. C. Peregrinus came from Mauritania Ceesariensis 
(Morocco), M. Censorius from Nimes in Gaul, and L. A. Verianus 
from Sicca in Africa. 
(4) That the garrison has consisted of legionaries, the first 
cohorts of the Spaniards, Dalmatians, and Beetasians, with one of 
Mauritanians (?); also volunteers; and included both foot and 
horse cohorts, the commanders of the latter being Lucius Cammius 
Maximus and Lucius Antistius Verianus. 
(5) They give the names of the officers of the various cohorts ; 
also (6) the religion of the soldiers. Thus twenty altars are dedi- 
cated to Jupiter, in three cases the Emperor being deified along 
with Jupiter; two are dedicated to Mars, and three to Victory. 
In two, Rome itself is deified; whilst the local deities are 
represented by Belatucadrus, Setlocenia, and the Genius of the 
Place. 
In point of rarity, these altars stand out pre-eminently. Those 
by the Beetasians are rare—that to Vulcan is probably the only one 
found in Britain; the one by Lucius Cammius Maximus, of the 
18th Cohort of Volunteers, appears to be unique ; whilst those to 
Mars add mé/itari, as though Mars was not suggestive enough. 
Taking the fact of the interment of the altars them- 
selves, it is clear that all those discovered in 1870 were buried 
at one time, as they were found arranged, not here one and 
there one, but in a series of pits round a common centre, 
the diameter of the space being some twenty yards. Together 
with this, it is to be observed that the altars found in 1870 
include every name on either Spanish, Dalmatian, or Betasian 
altars found previous to that date, with one exception; so that 
they too may have been buried at the same time and in the same 
place, since several pits opened in 1870 were found empty. The 
date of such interment is difficult to fix, nay, probably impossible. 
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