140 IDENTIFIED STATIONS ON THE 



Accurate copies of the three Tabulae Sonestas Missionis are printed 

 in the Lapidarium Septentrionale, a work, which the present Duke of 

 Northumberland haa further enriched by the very valuable contribution 

 of exact facsimiles of those diplomas, executed under the supervision 

 of Mr. A. W. Franks. The geographical authorities may be conve- 

 niently consulted in Monumenta Historica Britannica, and Horsley's 

 Britannia Romana. 



§ 1. SEaEDUNUM=Wallsend. 



" Tribunus cohortis quar4s^ Lingonum Segeduno." NOTITIA. 



The only legible inscriptions found at Wallsend mention the Legio 

 secunda Augusta (leg- ii- avg-) and some centuries of different 

 cohorts. At *Tynemouth, however, Cohors guarta Lingonum (COH* 

 nil- lingonvm) is named, and on another stone the Legio sexta 

 Victrix (leg. VI" VI') No date can be derived from any of the 

 inscriptions; but we 'j'know from Trajan's diploma of the date A.D. 



possess, seems (like the Notitia) to have been modified, and the designation 

 Antonini Itinerarium points to the time of the Antonines {M. Aurelius and Anto- 

 ninus Pius) at which these modifications seem to have been made. Its date has 

 been fixed by some, but on insufficient grounds, at about A.D. 320. 



II Believed to have flourished in the seventh century. 



* At the mouth of the Tyne in tlae bed of the river a remarkable relic of the 

 Roman period was found — the boss {umbo) of a shield, that belonged, as we 

 learn from an inscription on it, to a soldier of the 8th Legion, Junius Dubiiatus 

 of the century, probably, of Julius Magnus. An excellent engraving of it has 

 been contributed by the owner, the Rev. "Wm. Greenwell of Durham, to the 

 Lapidarium Septentrionale, p. 58, and the subject is there fully discussed. Dr. 

 Bruce remarks : " The eighth legion was never in Britain. The owner of the 

 shield must therefore have been an occasional visitor ; or, perchance, he may 

 have approached our shores with the view of taking the command of some 

 auxiliary cohort." 



There is certainly no evidence that the eighth legion was ever in the island, 

 but we know from Henzen's, n. 5456, that vexillations of that legion (Augusta), 

 of the seventh ( Gemina), and of the twenty-second {Primigenia^, each a thou- 

 sand strong, took part in Hadrian's expedition. These bodies were, I suspect, 

 employed on the barrier. I have but little doubt that Junius Dubitatus, named 

 on this boss, was a soldier of the vexillation of the eighth that is mentioned in 

 that inscription. He seems to have been drowned, probably with some com- 

 rades, the boat or vessel in which he was having been upset or swamped whilst 

 crossing or entering the river. 



f On the inner side of the diploma we have the numeral iiii, but on the outer 

 VI. As we know from the Notitia, and from an inscription found in the island, 

 that the fourth cohort was in Britain, the latter numeral is commonly regarded 



