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Sydney Gardens, by the workmea of Mr. Goodridge, 

 architect, of that city, whose property it now is. This pig 

 is dcposited in the Museum of the Royal Literary and 

 Scientific Institution, in Bath. It bears exactly the same 

 inscription as those from Snailbeach, Shelve, and Sncad, 

 so that it may reasonably be presumed to have come from 

 the Shropshire mines. In its size and form it also agrees 

 remarkably with these specimens. 



Other pigs have been found at the mines on the Mendip 

 Hills. Camden and Leland describe one found at Wookey 

 Hole, in the time of Henry VIII, with the following 

 inscription :* 

 TL CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG. P.M. TRIB. P. Villi. 



IMP. XVI. DE BRITAN. 

 Dr. Thurnam makes the following remarks on this speci- 

 men :f " Another object of lead, often described as a pig, 

 but really an oblong plate, ' oblonga plumbi tabula,' and 

 part probably of a trophy, was also found on the Mendips 

 in the 16th Century. The inscription clearly identifies it 

 with the year 49 of our sera, and precisely accords with 

 that on well-known coins of Claudius, on the obverse of 

 which is a triumphal arch bearing an equestrian statu e 

 between two trophies, and inscribed like the lead plate." 



In August, 1853, a pig of lead was found near Blagdon, 

 on the northern flank of the Mendip Hills. It has the 

 inscription : 



BRITANNIC AVG. FIL. 

 rcferring to Britanniens, the son of Claudius, and proving 

 its date to be a little prior to the last. The history of the 

 discovery of this pig, and of its preservation, deserves to be 



* Camden's Brit., i., 83. Horselcy, 328. Ward in Phil. Trans., vol. 49., 

 part 2,p. 691, &c. 

 t Crania Britannica, p. 100. See also Archceol. Journal, vol. XI., p. 279. 



