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INSCRIPTIONES BRITANNi/E LATINS. 



More than fourteen liundred years have passed away since the 

 Romans abandoned Britain, and still relics of their period of rule 

 are often being found ; so that the remains of that time include 

 temples, villas, baths, altars, grave-stones, commemorative slabs, 

 pottery, objects made of gold, silver, lead, tin and brass, a largo 

 and miscellaneous collection of various articles required in domestic 

 or personal use, &c., &^g. Of these the most interesting, at least to the 

 classical student, are those memorials that bear inscriptions. And 

 yet but little attention has been given in the island to these most 

 interesting records of the past as a branch of Latin Epigraphy. 

 Numerous and vahiable volumes have, indeed, been published illus- 

 trating and explaining local antiquities, in many of wliich incidental 

 notices, more or less full, are given of inscriptions. Of this class arc 

 Stukeley's Itinerariuni Curiosum ; Gordon's Itinerarium Septen- 

 trionale; Hodgson's "Northumberland" and other County Histories ; 

 Eburacum, by Rev. C. Wellbeloved ; Isca Silurum, by J. E. Lee ; 

 Aquse Soils, by Rev. H. M. Scarth ; " The Roman Wall," by Rev. 

 Dr. Bruce; Smith's "Roman London;" Stuart's Caledonia Romana; 

 Wilson's " Prehistoric Annals of Scotland ;" and especially the 

 Lapidarvum Septentrionale — a splendid work in course of publication 

 by the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which, when 

 completed, will form the best authority for the monuments of Roman 

 rule that have been found in Northumberland, Cumberland, Durham 

 and Westmoreland. Not one of these works, however, is limited to 

 the inscribed relics even of the localities to which they are restricted, 

 whilst some of them are suited, in their ti'eatment of such inscrip- 

 tions as are given, rather for the Antiquary than for the Epigraphist. 



* Inscriptiones Britannice Latince consilio et aucloritale Academice Lilterarum 

 Regies Borussicce edidit ^miUus Uuhner. Adjecta est tabula Geographica. Berolini 

 ■apud Oeorgium Rehnerum, MDCOCLXXIII. Folio, pp. xii. 345. 



