NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 413 
The date is a.p. 84—96.* 
The Ceangi mentioned here, and also in the inscriptions on the 
sides of the blocks bearing nn. (5) and (6), seem to be the same as 
the Cangi of Tacitus, Ann. xii. 32: ductus in Cangos exercitus. 
Different opinions have been formed relative to their position. Cam- 
den (Gough’s Edition, i. 82), Gibson, Gough, and the author of the 
Index of the Monum. Hist. Brit. place them in Somersetshire. 
Camden subsequently (ili. 45) altered his opinion, and was inclined to 
place them in Cheshire. Thus also Latham (Smith’s Dic. Gr. and 
Rom. Geogr.) regards ‘‘ North Wales as a likelier locality” than 
Somerset. In this opinion I concur. The position suits better the 
description of Tacitus—jam ventum haud procul mari quod Hiber- 
niam insulam aspectat. It accords also with the situation of Canca- 
norum (or Ganganorum) Promontorium of Ptolemy, and Flintshire, in 
which and the adjoining counties of Cheshire and Denbighshire, I 
would place them, was probably even then noted for its lead-mines, at 
present the most productive in the island. 
Horsley and the author of the Index Monum. Hist. Brit., identify 
the Cancanorum promontorium as Brachypult point, in Carnarvon- 
shire, which suggests that the Cangi may have occupied that county 
also. I am inclined to suggest Great Orme’s Head. 
As it is most probable that Domitian did not receive the title 
Germanicus until 84 a.D., we may take this date for this inscription : 
and it seems no improbable supposition that this was one of a set of 
blocks prepared for transmission to Rome, with a view to being ex- 
hibited at his triumph, which took place in that year. It will be 
remembered that, on Domitian’s accession, Agricola was pursuing his 
successful career in Britain, and that 84 a.p. was the year of his 
seventh campaign. 
We shall now take up the remaining inscriptions. Of these, nn. (1) 
and (9) are imperfect ; and the difficulties in interpreting the others 
arise from LVT - in nn. (3), (10), and (14); MET: LVT: in n, (10), 
and METAL: LVTVD: in n. (13) ; EX: ARG- in nn, (3) and (14); 
and TR: and BR: in n. (31). As various explanations have been 
given of these abbreviations, we shall first investigate their meaning, 
and then proceed to the inscriptions themselves. 
* Mr. Way gives as the date 81—96; but Domitian did not obtain the title Germanicus 
until after his reputed victory over the Catti, in the close of §3 or the beginning of 84 
Eckhel, Doct. num. vet. vi. p. 396, has sufficiently refuted the notion that Domitian assumed 
this title on his accession. 
