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(Eburacum, York), the coloured glass and amber, which made 

 them amulets and ornaments. 



Similar dikes, entrenchments, and tumuli are observed along 

 the chalk wolds and oolitic hills of Lincolnshire and Northamp- 

 tonshire, and are continued to the Cotswolds of Gloucestershire 

 and the Downs of Wiltshire and Dorsetshire. Thus along the 

 north-eastern and southern coasts, and for a considerable breadth 

 inland, we have similar aspects of nature and corresponding 

 traces of the ancient inhabitants; so that in this manner the 

 most populous part of the Brigantian territory is found to be 

 closely allied to the Belgic provinces of South Britain: 



CHAPTER IX. 

 THE ROMANS. 



THE Roman standards were first reared in the Brigantian terri- 

 tory about A.D. 50, by Ostorius Scapula; they were finally with- 

 drawn about A.D. 406, with Constantine. The Sixth Legion, 

 which came to Britain in A.D. 117, was stationed at Eburacum 

 until the general abandonment of the province ; for it appears 

 there in the Notitia, at the same moment that the Second Legion 

 had left its quarters at Caerleon, and was ready to embark at 

 Ritupae. These three centuries were full of military glory and 

 imperial vicissitude. Eburacum was a stern war camp, but 

 around it was a great population. Here emperors received their 

 birth, and submitted to the common lot of humanity. This was 

 the great ' colonia/ probably the only municipium of the North, 

 ' altera Roma/ the seat of the imperial government. From this 

 point, even to the last convulsive struggle, the legions marched 



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