i 3 2 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



LEG. II. AVG. 

 F. 



It is now in the cuftody of Sir Edward Blacket, Bart. They alfo 

 found one of thofe inftruments, called, Extifpicia^ ufed by the 

 Aufpices in examining the bowels of animals. It was in the form 

 of a pencil, or Roman Stylus (z), of wood, very hard. 



They found another centurial ftone, broken off at one corner, 

 infcribed, 



LEG. XX. V V. 

 H O R T E N S. 

 P R O C U L. 



This legion performed an annual folemn facrifice of a hog 

 or boar to Ops, the Earth, and to Ceres t after harveft, in grateful 

 return for it (a). 



An abundance of flag's horns, lying by heaps of mufcle-fhells, 

 were digged up at the fame time ; alfo fome fmall copper-coins 

 of Conftantine, and his two fons, and of the two ufurpers, Magnen- 

 tius and Decentius (b). 



A filver coin of Nero's was found at or near this ftation, which 

 came into the pofleffion of Mr. Walton. 



(z) Baron Cleft's Difiertation, de ftylis veterum, et diverfis chartarum generibus, Ph. 

 Tr. No 420. 



(a) StuMey's Caraus. Vol. i. p. 198. 



(b) Of which, fee Thore/ly's Topogr. of Leeds, from p. 326, to p. 13 1 } and p. 336. 



Many 



