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scription on it is alrnost erased ; the beginning is legible, 

 and appears to agree with that in the British Museum. 

 The two other pigs, found at Broomer's Hill, were rnelted 

 down, the inscriptions being illegible. 



On a review of the preceding account it appears that 

 forty-four pigs of Roman lead have been discovered in 

 diflerent parts of England, proving the activity and indus- 

 try with which this business was conducted. The pigs 

 are remarkably regulär in their form, though differing 

 considerably in size and weight. The letters upon them 

 are well-formed. These circumstanees indicate the care 

 and skill employed in producing them, although metallurgy 

 is proved to have been far below the perfection to which 

 it has now attained, inasmuch as it is found profitable to 

 collect the slag of the Roman furnaces in order to extract 

 from it the metal which it still contains. 



The Romans, who became domiciled in Britain, appear 

 to have indulged to an uncommon degree in the use of 

 lead for interments. In the Museum of the Yorkshire 

 Philosophical Society there are four leaden cofBns, found 

 in one of the burial-places of Eburacum.* Mr. Bateman, 

 of Youlgrave, in Derbyshire, has two, one found at York, 

 the other at Colchester. Similar discoveries have been made 

 in London, Ivent, "NVilts, and Gloucestershire, and some of 

 these coffins are ornamented in a singular and rather ele- 

 gant style, with circles, escallop shells, and beaded astra- 

 gals.f In November, 1854, a perfect Roman tomb, of 

 very remarkable construction, was discovered at Caerwent, 

 anciently Venta Silurum, in Monmouthshire. It was situ- 

 ated beside the Via Julia, which led from Bath to Caer- 



* Wellbeloved's Deseriptive Account of the Antiquities, p. 59. 



t C. Roach Smith, in Journal of Archceological Association, II., 296-301. 

 Ar"heeolor/ieal Journal, X., 255. ; XII., 283- 



