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portance. On the site of a Roman temple here a votive altar 

 was found, bearing the inscription : 



FORTVNAE 



SACRVM 



C . ANTO . MODES 

 3 . LEG . VI . VIC . or P . F. 



V . S . L . M . 



Or, (Fortunse sacrum, Caius Antonius Modestus Centime, Legionis 

 Sextae victricis, pise fidelis votum solvit lubens merito). 



Many other remains of less importance indicate the occupa- 

 tion of this country by the Roman soldiers, especially a small 

 square camp at Kirklees. When Bede says Campodonum was 

 destroyed by Ceadwalla and Penda, does he mean Cambo- 

 dunum ? 



Hence by Mirfield and Dewsbury (where Paulinus is said to 

 have preached Christianity to the Saxons about A.D. 626), and 

 Horbury to Wakefield, the Calder traverses a pleasing vale, 

 which, like the greater part of the course of this stream, is well 

 wooded. Filled with manufacturing establishments from almost 

 its very source, it is refreshing to be reminded of other days by 

 the ruins of Sandal Castle, fatal to the White Rose, the 

 chapel on Wakefield Bridge, lately restored, and what was the 

 Nunnery at Heath. From the foot of this last-mentioned hill 

 the stream takes a winding course by Stanley and Altofts to its 

 junction with the Aire at Castleford. 



At Lingwell Gate, north of Wakefield, clay-moulds for the 

 fabrication of Roman imperial coins by fusion, and castings were 

 found; in one of the moulds a coin. They were accompanied 

 by a crucible. The coins thus forged extend from Hadrian to 

 Alexander Severus*. 



* Memoirs of the York Meeting of the Arch. Inst. 



