430 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. (]aNNO 1708. 



solved in our body, but only by sharp salts or by fire ; and consequently, that 

 it is altogether an unprofitable thing in physic. 



Concerning some Roman Coins fourid in Yorkshire. By Mr, Ra. Tfioresby, 



F.R.S. N°3l6, p. 134. 



Some Roman coins were ploughed up at Cookridge, which are a confirmation 

 of the following conjecture, viz. that the Roman via vicinalis (which comes 

 from the great military road upon Bramham-Moor) passed from that station at 

 Adellocum (of which there is an account N° 282 of the Phil. Trans.) through 

 these grounds to Ilkley. The coins are mostly very fair. The oldest is of 

 Domitian, An. Urb. Cond. 846, which coincides with a. d. 95 ; his head is 

 surrounded with this inscription, iMPerator CAEsar DOMiiianus Auoustus 

 GERManicns p. m. (Pontifex Maximus) t. r. p. (Tribunitia Potestate) xiiii. 

 The reverse shows that he was then saluted Emperor the 22d time, imp. xxii. 

 COS. (consul.) XVI. gens. pp. (Pater Patriae) ; the Flavian family particularly 

 affected the title of Censors, and Domitian is the last emperor who has that 

 title upon his medals ; the figure on this reverse has a helmet on the head, and 

 a spear in the right hand. 



The next is of Nerva's. — imp. nerva. caes. aug. pm. trp. cos. Reverse 

 CONCORDIA exercituum. Dcxtrae junctae. The next seven are of Trajan's, 

 but all different. — imp. caes. nerva. traianus. germ. rcv. pm. trp. cos. 

 III. pp. figura stolata stans, sinistra cornucopiae. The next has the same in- 

 scription, save that it was in his 4th consulship, and has figura galeata cum 

 hasta. The rest that are legible, are of Hadrian's, viz. — hadrianus. Augustus. 

 Rev. COS. III. victoria cum palma. The other has upon the reverse, felici- 

 TATi augusti. Above the navis praetoria, and below it cos. in. pp. These 

 are all of silver : there was a large one of copper of the Emperor Domitian, — 

 imp. caes. domit. AUG. GERM but the reverse was not legible. 



One is inscribed hadrianus aug. cos. hi. pp. Rev. restitutori hispani^e. 

 This was upon his peaceable settling of affairs in that his native country ; Spain 

 is represented here as a woman with a branch in her right hand to denote her 

 fruitfulness, kneeling before the emperor, who kindly takes her by the hand to 

 raise her up. 



By these it appears, that this station flourished when the Roman empire was 

 in its prime ; and there being none of a later date, makes it probable, that it 

 perished in some of the insurrections of the native Brigantes, about Severus's 

 time, as it was conjectured from the form of the letter a in the inscriptions 

 upon the funeral monuments. Phil. Trans. N° 282. 



