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suggestive was the collection of arm and ankle rings, and portions of chains, such 
as were put upon captives, refractory slaves, and prisoners. All these were deeply 
corroded by rust from their repose in the soil during eighteen centuries, but the 
shapes were perfectly preserved and the material was indisputable. Out-door 
labour was represented by the iron sickle, the hatchet, and some remains 
apparently of other tools. The household and the toilet of the families which 
dwelt at the villa and temple were represented by combs, small tweezers as perfect 
in action as ever, ornamental pins, headed with agate or sapphire, necklaces or 
beads (lapis lazuli, &c.) long hair-pins, a great number of rings, both solid and 
twisted in construction, together with a small toy-bell with four openings shaped 
so as to represent the petals of a rose. Samples of the combs, tweezers, pins, 
rings, necklaces, and parti-coloured beads are to be seen in an excellent little hand- 
book of Mr. Llewellyn Jewitt, F.S.A. (Half Hours among English Antiquities). 
That the Roman ladies were accustomed to use preparations for heightening the 
effect of their charms might be inferred from the discovery of three stamps for 
different kinds of collyrium or eye-salve, prepared by a certain Julius Jucundus 
from myrrh and other ingredients, which were supposed to add to the brilliancy 
of the eye. Thus Eastern women at the present day stain their eyelashes and 
eyelids with a preparation which by contrast greatly heightens the brightness of 
the eye. On two pieces of pottery were female faces, with the hair so elaborately 
dressed that it might provoke the jealousy of modern artistes; there was how- 
ever no clue to their identification ; though it was remarked later in the day that 
a female terminal statue at one extremity of the larger camp gave like evidence of 
no mean skill in the use of the brush and curling irons. 
Besides these features in this remarkable Museum, there were noticeable 
also curious military relics, among them iron spear-heads with rude sheaths for 
the wooden stock or shaft, well preserved arrow-heads, bosses of shields, and 
equestrian rings. One of these had a projection on one side perforated in squares 
like the ward of a key; and in addition to these the numismatic department was 
well represented by coins of Galba, Hadrian, Antoninus, and other Emperors to 
Allectus inclusive. But after all these ancient details that which attracted most 
careful and curious inspection, was a collection of three votive tablets, two in 
bronze, the third, if we recollect aright, in pewter or lead, all of which bear ex- 
press reference to the tutilar Romano-British deity, to whom the temple, still 
traceable within the precincts of the camps is dedicated, and one of them the 
name of Flavius Senilis the probable founder of the temple, and owner of the 
adjacent villa. It would seem that this god was named Nodons, Nodens, or 
Nudens; and there is reason for supposing that he was a local British deity, 
adopted by the Romans in Britain, after their accommodating fashion, into their 
tolerant pantheon. In the ruins of the temple was found an inscription in large 
characters, covering a large space, and, with the exception of one or two incon- 
siderable lacune, easy to decipher. Its surroundings included a fanciful border, 
representing the twisted bodies of salmon, the fish of the Severn; and cocks, 
serpents, dogs, and representations of limbs, in connection, it would seem, with 
