3 8 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



la'ry deities of the chace or foreft of Lowes. Both Venus Venatrix, 

 and Venus Paphia, are reprefented as attired in a fhort robe, nuda 

 genu (z). Thefe here with globes in their hands, and in fhort 

 coats, are fuppofed to have been made by a corpfe of Thracian or 

 Syrian auxiliaries, expert in the chace, and excellent horfemen ; 

 their horfes remarkable for their beauty (aj. 



The globes in the hands of their deities may intimate not only 

 the univerfal empire of the Romans, but their reliance even in 

 their plcafures on the protection and guidance of heaven. They 

 had a temple on a hillock, now called, The Chapel-ti\\\. It was 

 of the Doric order ; a large fragment of a Doric capital lying prof- 

 trate by it fomc years ago, confiding of two Torus's, plain ; alfo 

 many broken columns. Tbofe deities were worftiipped in open 

 temples, and in groves. H"rd by is a wet meadow, which might 

 then have been a grove, now over-run with brufhwood, particu- 

 larly with the fwcet-fcented willow, whofe foliage, after the 

 morning and evening dew, yield a moll grateful fragrance. 



Through an opening of a ridge of limeflone rocks, a little on 

 this fide of the 28th mile-ftoiie, on the right h?.ml, fouth from, 

 and almoil oppofite to, Shewing foeels 'b'), is a good view of 



Langley-Caftle, the feat of the bnrons of Tynedale ; of the two 

 Adams de Tynedale, father and foil, in the reign of K. Henry III. fcj ; 



of 



(z) V'irg. Rn. I. 



Va'llmt. Numifmat. 



(a) Vi>'g. JEn. v. ver. 565. 



(b) Seavenfliale. Camden. 

 Shewingfheels. Horjley. 



(c) A:'am de Tynedale tenet in capite de domino rege baroniam fuam de Langley per fervi- 

 cium unius feodi milit. (viz. Wardens, Fourftoncs, AJlerwes, Langley, Wyden, Haiden- 



Brigges, 



