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It is well known how very little has been accomplished, and 

 how unsatisfactory the work done in this branch has been, up till 

 now ; it would be a useful task for local savants, well versed in 

 local literatui'e, to collect and publish comprehensive summaries 

 on the disconnected investigations and statements scattered 

 over a large area. 



The publications of such summaries in these Annals would 

 indicate the gaps, and incite men interested in this kind of 

 work to fill up these gaps. We might perhaps succeed, as is 

 the case in England, in interesting the military authorities of 

 our garrisons in this kind of work. An exhaustive technical 

 investigation, and accurate comparison of the extant remains 

 of Roman fortifications of Mayence, Treves, and Cologne, 

 merely to mention the most important points, would, for 

 instance, in my opinion, furnish a proof that the walls and 

 gates of Treves, inclusive of the Porta Nigra, formed part of 

 the original Claudian Colony, satisfactory even to those who 

 have not allowed themselves to be convinced by all the 

 arguments brought forward up till now. How much may 

 be done by an earnest devotion, and an untiring diligence 

 and energy, even with modest means, and without much 

 learned apparatus, towards the solution of these most im- 

 portant historical problems, we note with pleasure from this 

 communication on Roman Glevum. 



Berlin. E. Hubnee. 



Since the publication of the paper in the Cotteswold Transactions, upon which 

 the above article comments, I have found the actual emblem of the Second 

 Augustan Legion on a piece of "Samian" pottery, among the remains at the 

 East Gate of Gloucester. See article in the 1st vol. of the Journal of the Bristol 

 and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, "On the Roman wall of Gloucester." 



J.B. 



