NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 409 
This I interpret as meaning that the gifts offered to Mercury, whose 
statue is referred to in the preceding portion of the inscription, shall 
be sold to purchase decorations, and the cost of putting them up shall 
be defrayed from the money-offerings, or what we may call penny 
contributions. 
O.... ANTE: VICTORINO : INTER ... ATE: I regard as 
standing for OP CVRANTE : VICTORINO: INTERAMNATE, 
i.e. Opus curante Victorino Interamnate, Victorinus, an Interamnian, 
(i.e. as I understand it, a native of the country between the rivers 
Wye and Severn), directing the work. 
The word INTER .... ATE seems to me to explain INTER, in 
line six of the third inscription, about the meaning of which I ex- 
pressed doubts in my former article on the subject. I now xegard it 
as an abbreviation of INTERAMNATI, an epithet given to Nodon, 
from the situation of his temple and the position of the district in which 
he was specially worshipped, 7.e. NODENTI: INTERAMNATI; as 
we find Hercules Tiburtinus, Juno Albana, Jupiter Poeninus, Apollo 
Actiacus, &e. ‘ 
I avail myself of this opportunity to add what I inadvertently 
omitted mentioning in my former article, that I trace the use of a 
tablet of lead for this inscription to the fact, that this material was 
used in recording execrations and for magical defiviones. Thus in 
Tacitus, Ann. ii. 69,—nomen Germanic plumbeis tabulis insculptum, 
is noticed amongst the maleficia quis creditur animas numinibus in- 
fernis sacrari; and Dio Cassius (lvii. 18), whilst telling the same story 
of Piso’s machinations against the life of Germanicus, says: éAacpot 
por(Bdwor apds Twas jweTa TOD dvopaTos adTod ExovTes. 
56. The principal remains of Roman metallurgy in Britain are 
blocks of lead, presenting an appearance of which a good idea may be 
formed from the subjoined wood-cut.* 
(Weight, nearly 1561bs.; upper, or larger, surface, 24in, by 5in.; inscribed 
surface, 21in. by 3}in.; thickness, 5in.) 
* Copied from a wood-cut, in Journal Arch. Assoc., vol. v., illustrating an article, by Mr. 
C. Roach Smith, which coutains much valuable iuformation relative to these blocks. 
