18 PAFERS, ETC. 



describes in the above extract. There are several grooves 

 cut ia tbe mountain, from wbich the ore was doubtless 

 extracted. Some remarkable implements of wood, and a 

 very powerful iron pick-axe, were found at Luxborough, 

 not far from Dunster, wbere it appears tbat the Romans 

 had iron-mines, and made use of the Brown Hematite. 

 These are preserved, with the above-named specimens, in 

 the Museum of this Society, at Taunton, and are given 

 in Plate II. of the illustrations of this paper. 



Another pig of lead is referred to in Stukeley's Itiner- 

 arium Curiosum, A.D. 1723, p. 143, in the following terms : 

 " At Longleat, in my Lord Weymouth's library, is a piece 

 of lead weighing 50 pounds, one foot 9 inches long, two 

 inches thick, three and a half broad, found in the Lord 

 Fitzharding's grounds near Bruton in Somersetshire, and 

 was discovered by digging a hole to set a gate-post in ; 

 upon it this memorable inscription, which I suppose was 

 some trophy ; communicated by Lord Winchelsea. 



IMP DVOR AVG ANTONINI 

 ET VERI ARMENIACORVM 



This would give A.D. 163 as its date. 



HAMPSHIRE. 



A pig was found in 1783, near the Broughton Brook, 

 Stockbridge, and belonged to the late Mr. J. M. Elwes, 

 of Bossington. It bears the following inscription, with the 

 date of Nero's fourth consulate, A.D. 60-68, and evidently 

 referring to the Ceangi : 



NERONIS. AVG. EX. KIAN. IUI. COS. BRIT. 

 It has letters on the sides, among which the following are 

 important, viz., ex argent., because we have already 



