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The four original Legions of the army of occupation stationed 



in Britain in the first century, gradually received, one and all, 



according to the well-tried principles of Eoman policy and 



warlike experience, large fortified Camps, with the institutions 



and arrangements of a town ; the only one of these fortified 



Camps which remained to be traced was the one destined for 



the Second Legion. This can only have been Glevtjm, 



considering its situation and size, which, as we have seen, 



almost entirely correspond with that of Lindum and Eburacum. 



The circumstance of the missing inscriptions is partly explained 



by the subsequent removal of the head quarters to Isca, whose 



arrangements the author of the paper justly styles " a precise 



repeat of Gloucester " (p. 38) : this, however, by no means 



implies, that there may not at some future time be dug from the 



foiindations of the old houses at Gloucester, a stone bearing an 



inscri]3tion, and which would bear out my supposition. I do not 



expect to find any legionary tiles, for the oldest tiles found in 



England, those of the Twentieth Legion from Deva, and of the 



ISTinth from Eburacum scarcely date back to the end of the first 



century ; but it agrees very well with my supposition that coins of 



Claudius are the most frequently found in Gloucester(l). Also the 



copper coin mentioned in this paper, on which only a head 



with a long neck and the inscription AVG were distinguishable, 



is probably a coin of this Emperor, or of one of his predecessors. 



We can, therefore, with some accuracy, fix upon the year 60 of our 



era, as the date of the foundation of the Roman Colony of Glevum. 



Thus, the monumental facts, the position, the size, and the 



style of the structures in the colony, an accurate knowledge of 



which we owe to the careful investigations recorded in the 



paper before us, furnish an important supplement to the 



traditions on the conquest of Britain, and to our knowledge of 



the ancient history of England. 



Together with revision of the Eoman roads of the Rhine 

 district, undertaken by the Society of Rhenish Antiquaries, an 

 accurate survey of all the Roman Colonies, Forts, and Stations, 

 ought to be made (2). 



(4) Arcliseologia 18, 1815 p. 120. 



