72 RIVERS. 



British tribes before the Romans*, are in the township of Dacre 

 and in the parish of Ripon. 



At Hayshaw Bank near Dacre Pasture were found in 1735 

 two pigs of lead of the same shape and dimensions. The in- 

 scription 



IMP . CAES . DOMITIANO . AVG . COS . VH 



taken from one of them, preserved in the British Museum, gives 

 us the early date of A.D. 81 for this mark of the Roman posses- 

 sion of Greenhow Mines f- In Gough's ' Camden/ the inscrip- 

 tion, perhaps taken from the other preserved at Ripley Castle, is 

 augmented by the terminal BRIG, which marks the district. 

 On Roman pigs of Derbyshire lead, LUT or LUTUD occurs for 

 the same purpose. 



One of the most interesting caves I ever saw was opened in 

 the course of lead-mining at Greenhow Hill. In 1825, when I 

 reached it by a miner's climbing shaft, it had much the appear- 

 ance of a Franconian bear cave, dust on the floor, stalactites 

 of great size and brilliant beauty everywhere depending from the 

 roof. It was, however, soon robbed of its sparry ornaments by 

 tasteless visitors and greedy miners, and must now be mentioned 

 as one of the lost wonders of Yorkshire. 



Still south-eastward by Beningbrough, the Saxon name of a 

 residence of the Abbot of St. Mary's of York, and the ' Red 

 House/ an erection of the time of Charles I., the Ouse flows 

 on to the York of today, the Eoforwic of our Saxon sires, 

 the Eburacum of the Emperors of Rome, probably the Aberach 

 of earlier British princes. 



* Proceedings of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, 

 t Memoirs of Archaeological Institute, 1846. 



