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different from those assif^ned to them in that record — cohors prima 

 Batavorum at Magna = Carvoran (as well as at Procolitia = Carraw- 

 burgh), cohors tertla Nerviorum at F'mio?a7ia=Chesterholm, instead 

 of Alione, and cohors sezta N'erviorum at uSsica = Great Chesters 

 instead of Virosido. But such differences as these are not at all 

 inconsistent with the identification, as, doubtless, for the sake of disci- 

 pline and other reasons the military bodies were occasionally moved 

 from one station to another. In these changes of quarters, however, 

 we might expect to find at each station a succession of troops of the 

 same kind, i. e. of cavalry or of infantry. Where there was a cavalry 

 regiment there were of course stables for the horses, in addition to 

 quarters for the men ; here then alos or cohortes eguitatoe could be 

 accommodated. - 



The 2nd, 6th, and 20th Legions, and Yexillations also of the same, 

 were employed in building this wall, as they also *worked on the wall 

 of Antoninus, but no memorials have been found here similar to those 

 in Scotland, in which the number of paces is stated, with the name of 

 the reigning Emperor — Antoninus Pius. 



The list of Emperors, named or referred to in the inscriptions 

 found in these 'twelve stations, begins with Hadrian and includes 

 many of his successors up to the proclamation of Constantino (the 

 Great) as C^sar, l e. from about A.D. 124 to 306-308. Of all these 

 Emperors f Hadrian is the most frequently mentioned, but not so 

 often, perhaps, as might be expected on the supposition that the wall 

 was built under his orders. With one or two exceptions in the fourth 

 century, all the dates are in the second and third, the majority being 

 in the latter. It is surprising that we have not several inscriptions 

 bearing dates within the hundred years that preceded the time of the 

 JVotitia, as indicated in its latest reference Several coins, however, 

 of this period down to the time of Honorius, have been found on or 

 near the line of the wall. 



* It was, I think, only a Vexillation of the 6th that was employed on the 

 northern barrier. 



f Dr. Bruce's assertion in " the Roman "Wall," p. 382, 3rd edition, that "from 

 Wallsend to Bowness we do not meet with a single inscription belonging to the 

 reign of Severus" is too strong. He forgot the stone that was found at Con- 

 dereum. See Horsley, BrHt. Rom. Nor. ix, and Lapidarium Septentrionale, n. 27. 



