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that, if it was divided about the middle of it3 original 

 length, it must have agreed both in size and form with most 

 of those found in England. It bore an inscription in two 

 lines, agreeing in this respect with two of those found in 

 Somersetshire. The following letters, which alone remain, 

 are the commencement of the lower line : 



NACIS VGPA 



These letters are 2 centimetres long, and their elevation or 

 projection above the surface of the lead is 2 or 3 milli- 

 metres. 



Another pig was found in the ruins of Vieil-Evreux, 

 the ancient Mediolanum, also in Normandy.* 



The third forms part of the collection of the Historical 

 and Archajological Society of Chalons-sur-Saone. It was 

 found in 1855 at Sassenay, near that city, not far from the 

 Roman road, which led from Chalons to Langres, and 

 thence to the coast opposite Britain. In its angular form 

 it corresponds with the English specimens, and differs from 

 the Spanish. It is represented in an engraving, and 

 described in a very interesting memoir by M. Marcel 

 Canat, President of the above-named Society, in a disser- 

 tation, which is inserted in the third volume of their 

 Memoirs (pp. 28-30,57). On one of the long sloping sides 

 it has the following inscription : 



AVGPARTHICIADIABENICI 



and at the bottom LVICVC and DL'P. The former of 

 these two inscriptions occurs twice. 



M. Canat observes, that the long inscription could only 

 refer to the Emperor Septimius Severus, since he alone ob- 



* Bulletin. Monumental, Paris, vol. xxn., p. 409. Revue Archceologique, 

 Paris, 1856, p. 548-550. Cochet, Normandie Souterraine, 2nde edition, p. 

 120. 



