150 IDENTIFIED STATIONS ON THE 



(L. S. n. 389), 237 (L. S. n. 354), 238-244 (L.S. n. 352), 258-267 

 (L. S. n. 359), 267-274 (L. S. n. 353). One (L. S. n. 374) on an 

 altar erected by the soldiers of the 20th Legion gives A. D. 153, and 

 of three imperfect inscriptions one (L» S. n. 386) yields possibly A.D. 

 219, another (L. S. n. 387) certainly A.D. 236, and a third (L. S. n. 

 368) not improbably A.D. 286-308. On a rock in the neighbourhood 

 the names of the Consuls of A.D. 210 are cut. 



The first jElian Cohort of Dacians is not named in the diplomas 

 found in the island, unless we suppose that it was the same as the 

 Gohora Ulpia Trajana Civium Bomanorum in Hadrian's of A.D. 124, 

 a supposition for which I see no ground. 



From the foregoing statements it appears that of the twelve stations 

 there are * three — '\ Pons ^/nr=Newcastle-upon-Tyne, J Vindobala= 

 Kutchester, and \\JEdca=(j(VQa.t Chesters — at which no memorials 

 have been found of the troops, whose quarters, according to the 

 Notitia, were in those places. We also find the following at stations 



and remarks — " The obliteration in the stone and other circumstances, lead to 

 the conclusion that Elagabalus is the Emperor intended ; lie was Consul for the 

 second time A.D. 219." In the Canadian Journal, September, 1865, I expressed 

 the same opinion, but at the time I had not seen the stone figured, but depended 

 merely on the copy as g'iven in the Monuvienta Historica Britannica. Since I 

 have had the opportunity of examining Dr. Bruce's wood-cut, I am inclined to 

 think that the letters before BIS were IMP, and that the numerals III were in 

 the vacant space between COS and VEXIL. The Emperor will thus be Cara- 

 calla, and the date A.D. 212. I was led to these emendations by doubts as to 

 the order — BIS COS instead of COS BIS for COS" II — of which I do not 

 remember ever having seen an example. My conjecture seems to be confirmed 

 by Hiibner's Inscrip. Hispan. n. 1671, where we have IMP- BIS- COS' III' 

 applied to Caracalla ^^ A. D. 212. 



* I have not counted Segedunum:=-'W&AsQnA, as Tynemouth may reasonably 

 be regarded as an outpost. 



f Mr. Merivale, History of the Romans under the Empire, vii, p. 454, note, 

 remarks: — "Pons ^lii of the 'Notitia Imperii' is amply identified with New- 

 castle-on-Tyne by inscriptions." There is unfortunately not one on which this 

 identification can be based- 



:j: Dr. Bruce, L. S. p. 41, remarks: — "No inscription has been found at Rut- 

 cheater telling us what troops were quartered there, but as the preceding and 

 following stations have been identified with Gondercum and Hunnum, there can 

 be no doubt that Rutchester is the Vindohala of the Notitia, which, according to 

 that document, is situated between Gondercum and Eunnum." 



II See § 10. 



