MINING OPERATIONS OF THE KOMAKS. 13 



from StafFordshire or Derbyshire, perhaps froin Flintshire. 

 Camden, in bis Britannia^ says he had been assurcd on 

 good autbority that 20 such pigs were found at Haiton, 

 near Runcorn, and that they bore the following inscrip- 

 tions : 



1MP. DOMIT. AVG. GER. DE CEANG. (a.d. 96) 

 and 



IMP. VE SP. VII. T. IMP. V. COSS. (a.d. 76) 

 The truth of the testimony, thus recorded by Camden, is 

 fully confirmed by the alinost entire agreement of these 

 inscriptions with those on four other pigs which were 

 subsequently discovered, two in Yorkskire, a third in 

 StafFordshire, as already mentioned, and a fourth found 

 Sept. 29th, 1838, in the township of Great Boughton, 

 within the parliarnentary borough of Chester. This last 

 is preserved at Eaton Hall, the seat of the Marquis of 

 Westminster, and bears the following inscription, with the 

 addition of de ceangi. at the side :f 



IMP. VESP. V. T. IMP. HI. COS. 



A similar block of lead was found imbedded in a wall 

 about four feet under ground, in Common Hall Street, 

 Chester : weight 1^ cwt. It is considerably thicker at one 

 end than at the other. The middle part of the inscription 

 is entirely defaced, but the letters caesaei are legible at 

 the beginning, and vadom at the end. It is consequently 



* Gough's cdition, Lon. 1S06, vol. in., folio, p. 45. 

 f Moimmcnta Historica Britannica, inscriptions, p. 134. On the site of 

 the Cangi, who are mentioned by Tacitus, Ann. xn. 32, Brotier says: "De 

 Cangorum situ diu disputatum. Tandem innotuit eos septemtrionalis 

 Wallise partem, North Wales, etprovincian Cestriensem, Cheshire, habitilsse. 

 Ibi repertie massse plurubea; cum inscriptione, 



IMP. DOMIT. AVG. GER. DE CEANG. 

 Id est, Imperator Domiliamts Angttsttis Germanicus de Ceangis. Vide 

 eruditos Camden, Britannia, p. 54G; et Stukeiey, The Medallic Bistory of 

 Carav.sius, vol. I., p. 176. 



