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So far, then, we have been unable to trace any proof of 

 continuity, at any rate up to the year A.D. 200. Whether after 

 this date we shall be able to pick up any information leading to 

 the fact of the return of the Spaniards, and their continued resi- 

 dence in the Maryport camp, it will now be our business to 

 enquire. 



It must be remembered that there are still several altars that 

 have not as yet been brought under review in the foregoing 

 remarks. Many of them are of course useless for the purposes of 

 our investigation. Amongst these are the one by the "Cohort (?) 

 from the province of Mauritania," and the Spanish one by Marcus 

 Censorius Cornelianus — seeing that they cannot be connected 

 with the "find" of 1870, nor can the date of their dedicators be 

 discovered. We shall also have to omit the altar to Belatucadrus 

 by Julius Civilis, and that to Setlocenia by Lucius Abareus 

 Genialis (?), as we have no means of determining either to what 

 cohort the dedicators belonged, nor yet the time at which they 

 lived. For obvious reasons we shall also have to omit all broken 

 altars — altars without inscriptions, etc. So that, mcluding the 

 altars already mentioned, there are only some fifteen altars by the 

 Spaniards, five by the Bastasians, and three by the Dalmatians that 

 are available for our purpose. 



Granted that the conclusions to which we have already arrived 

 at are correct, i.e. with regard to the relative dates of those by 

 M. M. Aprippa, the Dalmatians, and the Bsetasians, we have for 

 our present purpose some ten Spanish altars left, viz : — Four by 

 Caius Caballus Priscus ; two by Helstrius Novellus ; three by 

 Lucius Cammius Maximus; and one by Lucius Antistius Verianus. 

 With regard to the first six, their leading characteristics compare 

 very strongly with those of M. M. Agrippa, so much so that we 

 should probably not err greatly in assigning to them a date not far 

 removed from that of Agrippa himself The remaining four, 

 although apparently of a later date, still belong clearly to an earlier 

 date than those by the Bsetasians, which appear to te the latest in 

 point of time, asjudged by their appearance in the "find" of 1870. 

 Still inferences drawn in this manner may easily err, and it will be 



