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the narroweft end, and nigh ii and an half at the broadeft^ this 
was the loweil; part for the feet, and the reft was proportionably 
broader till it came to the flioulders 5 it is an inch thick befides 
the ledges, which are one inch broad and two thick, and extend 
from the bottom of either fide to within three inches of the top, 
where it is altogether flat and fomewhat thinner for the next to 
lie upon it • the feveral parts whereof were thus joined together 
by pins, as may be preilimed ; tor at the end of each tile is a 
hole, that would receive a common flate pin 5 thele edges are 
wrought a little hollow, probably, to receive the fides, and at 
the feet are two contrary notches to faften the end piece : This 
bottom might be concluded to have confided ftridlly of eight 
liich parts, from the character eight ftamped upon the clay by the 
Sandapilariuis (i. e. lexton's) finger before its baking, but that 
it is fomewhat doubtful whether numeral chara6iers be of that 
antiquity in thefe European parts. Mr. l^horesby had fome 
fcrapes of broken urns, of a very fine clay, with which was found 
a Roman fhuttle, about three inches and a half long, bat not one 
inch broad in the very middle; the h How for the Lkium or 
thread being but one fourth of an inch in the broadeft place, 
fhews that it was either for filk or very fine linnen, perhaps for 
their Asbeftimim or incombuftible cloth. He alfo procured a Ro- 
man pottle from ^Iborougby which is of the red clay, but much I, 
coarfer than the Tork urn?, which he took to be flriaiy the half L 
of their Congius, and comes the nigheft to Mr. Greaves com.pu- m 
tation, containing three pints and an \\d\^ IVinchefier meaiure. 
He received 22 old Roman coins f'om Mr. To\Vnley o^ 'I*o--W!ile}\ 
which were found in the parifli di 'Burnley in Lancapire-j many 
of them were confuiar, or family coins, one of them, viz, 
^CaJJiHS was 1^2 years before Chrift, according to Gokzius's 
method, being ftriaiy the fame he makes ^. U, C. 589. That 
they were the ancient Roman iJenarii^' and coined before the 
emperor's times, notwithftanding the contrary lentiments of fome 
learned men, is evident, becaufe there is moitly inftead of the 
emperor's head, the antique form of the city's head, without an 
infcription^ befides Tacitus calls thefe bigati and quadrigati, ■ 
pecuniam veterem ac dlu notam, i. e. coins having the image of 
a chariot drawn by two and by four horles, as ancient and long 
known. Again, others have upon them Roma, which is not 
uled by any of the emperors, except thofe iiTiall pieces that were 
coined upon the tranflarion of the empire to Conftantinople -^ 
again, the letters in thefe are often interwoven, as particularly 
V— L m one Mr. Thoresby had of Z. l^akrius Fkccus A U. C. 
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