SWALE. 55 



Gaelic, signifies f fortified city ' rperhaps ' royal/ Sir W. Lawson 

 has lately laid open a part of the wall. 



On the handle of an urn, taken with four others from a vault, 

 was this inscription : 



I I AYR HERACLE 

 PAT ET FIL F BAR. 



The following much more remarkable record, which was found 

 in 1620, narrates the restoration of an altar to the tutelary 

 deity of roads and paths, A.D. 191 (Gough's Camden) : 



DEO QVI VIAS 

 ET SEMITAS COM 

 MENTVS EST . T . IR 

 DAS.SC.F.V.LLM 



Q . VARIVS VITA 

 LIS ET E COS ARAM 

 SACRAM RESTI 



TVIT 



APRONIANO ET BRA 

 DVA COS 



Whitaker mentions an inscription containing the words ( Dea 

 Syria' (ii. p. 24). 



Sir W. Lawson possesses two lions sculptured in stone, and 

 a remarkable bronze vessel, which when found was covered with 

 flat stones and full of Roman coins. It was capable of holding 

 twenty -four gallons, and was in a former century "fixed in a 

 furnace to brew in" (Magna Britannia, vol. vi.). Bases of old 

 pillars, a floor of brick, a pipe of lead, &c., are among the other 

 interesting reliquise dug up at Thornborough. This district will 

 again attract our attention in a later chapter. 



The course of the Swale is now south-eastward, in a low but 

 not flat country, to near Leeming, where it receives the Grimscar 

 Beck, from Bedale and Bellerby between Swaledale and Yore- 

 dale ; then south-eastward to Breckenbrough, where the Wisk 

 enters. This river rises near Ingleby Arncliffe, and Mount 



