VOL. XXIII.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 719 



large aqueduct, in stones of a great length, and about -f- of a yard thick, 

 wherein the passage for the water is about 6 inches broad, and as many 

 deep, almost double to those of clay, found in the Roman burying-place at 

 York. 



Some time ago here was dug up a statue, to the full proportion of a Roman 

 officer, with an inscription. There were also discovered two inscriptions : the 

 one is only a fragment, yet has enough to discover it to have been sepulchral, by 

 the H. S. E. for hie situs est, below PIENTISS ; the other is almost entire, 

 and is evidently a funeral monument, it begins as usually with Dijs Manibus 

 Sacrum, and ends Vixit Annos X, as it seems to have been by the vacancy ; it 

 is one foot thick, 2 broad, and 3 high; the letters are very large, full 3 inches 

 long, some of them interwoven, as AND (AD) and ED (as I apprehend the 

 E3 to be) in Candiedianae. The form of the letters, and particularly the A, 

 may perhaps discover the age this Roman station flourished in, viz. in Severus's 

 reign, An. Dom. ig4, or before, if the observation of Camden, in his Britanniae, 

 808, hold good, and I know none of the n^odcrn critics that dissent from 

 it : ' this observation, says hp, I Have made, that from the age of Severus 

 * to that of Gordiaii, and after, the letter A, in the inscriptions found in this 

 ' island, wants the cross stroke, and is engraved thus ^. 



Among the ruins were found 2 or 3 millstones, for grinding corn, which, 

 by the smallness of the size, 20 inches broad, show that the Romans of those, 

 as well as the Egyptians and Jews of former ages, made use of their slaves or 

 captives for that drudgery. Besides this, which is entire, I have a fragment of 

 another millstone, whereon the rows are yet remaining, which being heavier, 

 and almost as thick at the circumference, as the other is at the centre (for they 

 are convex on one side) I suppose might have been the runner. 



In traversing the ground, I found the fragments of urns and the other 

 Roman vessels, one of which has been 23 inches, or two feet in circumfer- 

 ence ; they are mostly of the common red clay ; but I have also one of the 

 best coral coloured varnish, and others of a bluish grey ; as also a brass ring 

 found in the same place. 



The Roman ridge that this town stood upon, comes from the great military 

 road upon Bramham moor, of which Leland, in his MS. Itinerary, affirms, 

 ' I never saw in any part of England so manifest a token as here, of the large 

 crest of the way of Watling-street made by hands. From thence this via 

 vicinnalis passes by Thorner and Shadwell, Street-lane and Hawcaster ridge 

 upon Blackmoor (near which is the Roman Pottery mentioned in some for- 

 mer Transactions) to Adel ; thence through Cockridge, over the moors to- 



