144 APPENDIX.—SEPULCHRAL REMAINS. 
The word Prineipia has been thus explained ; see 
Faceiolati in verb. Prineipium :—“ Prineipıa — orum; 
Locus in castris, ubi erat Pr&torium, et tabernacula 
legatorum et tribunorum militum, et signa legionum; et 
ubi conciones militares et concilia habebantur, jus dice- 
batur, sacra fiebant. ’Apxaia. ita dietus vel quod ibi 
Prineipes ac duces exercitus tenderent (had their tents 
pitched), vel quod in castris metandis principio designa- 
retur, postea reliqua castra.” 
Any who are desirous of further information on this 
point, I would refer to Lipsius de militia Romana, lib. 
quintus. See edition printed at Antwerp, 1598, pp. 
230, 231. 
Dr. Bruce observes that the word may probably here be 
translated Officers’ Barracks. 
We ought next to try to determine the spot from 
whence the slab was taken; it certainly seems to show that 
there was a military station near. By the assistance of the 
Somersetshire Archxological and Natural History Society, 
I have been enabled to make some excavations on the site 
of a building near at hand, which, from the remains, ap- 
pears certainly to have been Roman ; Roman coins having 
been dug up, as well as roofing-tiles and nails. The re- 
mains of a glass unguentory, and coarse baked pottery. This 
appears to have been an oblong building, placed north and 
south, the total length of which is 81 feet by 18 feet, and 
is composed of two compartments, one smaller than the 
other, and separated by a partition wall. Atsome distance 
below this is a fine spring of water, where an arched bath 
seems to have been constructed; there is, however, no ap- 
pearance of a fortified camp that I can detect, and it may 
be doubted if the inseription belonged to this building, 
the purpose of which I am unable to decide. 
