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The enlargement of the Railway Station at York has led to the 
discovery of the site of the ancient cemetery of the Roman 
Eburacum. The new Railway Station will stand on the former 
cemetery, and the excavations rendered necessary for the build- 
ings have led to the discovery of many Roman remains. Three 
altars have been found, one dedicated to the ‘ Genius Loci,” like 
that a few years ago discovered in Bath. The altar was found in — 
a little pile of Cobbles, at the head of a corpse, and a glass vessel 
near it. . . 
Funeral Tablets and stone cists have also been found with 
Inscriptions, one to a Decurion or magistrate of the ancient city ; and 
the interment also of a female where the back hair of the head 
with the pin of jet which kept it in place have both been 
preserved. An account of some of them will be found in the 
“ Academy” of the 9th October, 1875. 
Happily there is an excellent Museum for local antiquities at 
York, and a collection which will well reward examination, and 
the antiquaries of that city are not likely to let any object of 
interest which these excavations may yield pass by unnoticed and 
unrecorded. 
Some other inscriptions, but not, with one exception, of any 
great importance have been found in the course of the past year.* 
Mr. Bunnel Lewis, F.S.A., has communicated one to the 
Society of Antiquaries, found near Brougham Castle, in West- 
moreland (see Proceedings, May, 13th, 1875.) It is Sepulchral. 
One has been found at Charterhouse on Mendip, the particulars 
of which have already been communicated to the Club. Should 
the remaining portion of this eventually be found, it will greatly 
increase its interest. 
Passing from Roman to Medieval researches, our own county 
* The most interesting and important of these are the two small bronze 
plates with inscriptions in Greek, one dedicated to the gods of the Pretorium 
the other to Oceanus and Tethys, by Demetrius. The former is a singular 
confirmation of a passage in St. John’s Gospel, xviii. 28. 
