68 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND, 



Lucis habitamus opacis, 



Riparumque pros, ct prata recentia rivis,. 

 Incolimus: 



Dehinc fumma Cacumina; 



VIRG. ./En. vi. ver. 673, 



A confular medallion of Hadrian, of the old mixed brafs, was-, 

 found near this ftation by fomc labourers in making the military 

 road, now in my poiTeflion. It is four inches in circumference ; 

 his bull in bold relief on the obverfe ; the legend round it, Ha- - 

 driano Aug. Caefari ; within a laureated border, or civic garland 



S. P. Q^ 11. 

 OPTIMO PRINCIPI, 



s. a 



It was ftruck on the firft of January, a day facred to Janus, ob- 

 ferved with great folemnky, as prcfaging the felicity of the 

 new year. The confuls entering on their high office on that 

 day, their coins were then minted, with S. C.. in area, i. e. ob 



Cives Jeruatos. 



The Romans crofled the Tyne at this ftation by a bridge of arches ; 

 fome of the flones of which may be feen when the river is low. 



A little farther down the river, and in fight, is 



Walivick-Grange, the feat of Anthony Errington, Efq; 6 Edward VI. 

 (r) ; a younger branch of the .anticnt family of the Erringtons, 

 of Errington ; anceftor of the late William Errington, Efq; high 



(r) Bifliop Nlcfjolfen's Border Laws, p. 335. 



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