SOUTHERN ROMAN BARRIER IN BRITAIN. 141 



106, that the Cohors quarta Lingonum was in the island at that date. 



§ 2. Pons ^Lii=NewcastIe. 



" Trihunns cohortis quartse Cornoviorum Ponte uElii." NoTlTlA. 



The only corps named on a stone found here is Cohors prima 

 Thracum (OOH- I- THRACVM-) 



This cohort is named on two stones found at Bowes, in Eichmond- 

 ehire ; one of the date A.D, 196 or 197, when Virius Lupus was 

 Legate of Severus; the other, probably, of the time of Constantine. 

 Four Cohortes primas Thracum are distinguished. Cohors prima 

 Thracum^ Cohors prima miliaria Thracum, Cohors prima Thracum 

 C J?, (of which the first two are placed in Arabia, and the third in 

 Pannonia by the JVotitia), and the Cohors prima Thracum equitata 

 that was in Pannonia in A.D. 154. In Marini's Atti de' fratelli 

 Arvali there is mention in an inscription, found at Rome, of Claudius 

 Paulus Praefectus cohortis primse Thracum in Britann. 



Only three other inscriptions are ascribed to this station, one of 

 which probably gives the names of two soldiers of a century. 



No date can be derived from any of the inscriptions. 



§ 3. CoNDERCUM=Benwell, 



" Prsefecius alas primse Asturum Conderco." Notitia. 



The Ala prima Asturum (* ALA pri hispanorvm astvrvm, ALA 

 I ASTORVM or astvrvm) is named on three inscriptions that have been 

 found here. The date of one (L. S. n. 22) is between A.D. 238-244 

 (the period in which Gordian was emperor), of "f" another (L. S. n. 27) 



as having been cut by mistake. See however Gazzera, " Notizie di Dipl. Imp. 

 p. 40, n. 4, Cardinal!, Dipl. Imp. p. 148, and Henzen, Jahrbb. des Vereins v. 

 Alterth. — Frounden im Rheinl. xiii, p. 92. 



* In the Spanish cavalry regiments, the term Hispani sometimes, as here, 

 precedes the names of the tribes or peoples : thus Ala I Hispanorum Vettomim. 

 Such alee, primw are not to be confused with the Ala I Hispanorum. Similarly 

 the Ala 11 Asturwn stationed at Cilurnum was different from Ala 11 Hupanormn, 

 of which there must have been two, as we find this ala placed in the Notitia both 

 in the Thebaid and in Arabia, or else these notices refer to different times. 



f Dr. Bruce, L. S. p. 25, remarks : " This slab refers to a plurality of empe- 

 rors, and belongs, according to present appearances, to the reign of Severus and 

 his sons, A.D. 198-211. The inscription is, however, in so imperfect a state, 

 that confidence cannot be placed on any reading of it." According to the text, 

 as given by Horsley, Brit. Rom., North., ix, the victory named in it is of two 

 Auguati, and Alfenius Senecio is mentioned as Consularis, from which it may 

 be inferred that the "victory" refers to the expedition of Severus and Caracalla 



