I) RE. 59 



At Brough, just below Bainbridge, in the low ground close to 

 the Ure, is an oblong Roman camp. 



Here the following Inscription has been found (Gough's 

 Caniden) : 



IMP. OES. L SEPTIMIO 



PIO PERTINACI AVGV 



IMP. (LESARI . M . AVRELIO A 



PIO FELICI AVGVSTO 



(Name of Geta erased.) 

 BRACCHIO C^EMENTICIVM (cohors) 

 VI. NERVIORVM SVB CVRA L. A. 



SENECION AMPLISSIMI 

 OPERI L. VISPIVS PR.E ..... 

 LEGIO 



" From this/' says Camden, " we may infer that this fortifi- 

 cation at Burgh was anciently called Bracchium, which being at 

 first of earth was at this time built of stone, and the 6th cohort 

 of the Nervii stationed there, which seems to have had its 

 summer quarters on an adjoining high fortified hill, now called 

 Ethelbury." 



A statue of Commodus in the character of Hercules, holding 

 a club in the right hand, was also found at Nappa, not far below 

 Askrigg, with an imperfect inscription. 



It does not seem quite certain that Bracchium is the name, 

 or at least the only name, of the place. In the Notitia we have, 

 under the government of the Honourable the Duke of Britain, 



Tribunus cohortis sextse Nerviorum Virosido. 

 This cohort is mentioned in no other inscription in Britain. 

 Virosidum contains apparently the element Ur, the name of 

 the river by which the inscription was found ; and there is no 

 other evidence for the position of Virosidum than what the above 

 seems to furnish. 



On the remarkable limestone hill which rises to the south- 

 east of Bainbridge, by Camden called Ethelbury, by other writers 

 Anchellbury, Othelburg, and by the country people Addlebo- 



