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(e) TR • BR. — These abbreviations are found in n. 3, Mr, Pegge, 

 reading POT • for LVT •, regarded TR • as standing for 7V[ibunitia] 

 i. e. tribunitia jao^ [estate] ; Mr. Crane proposed ^/-[ibutum] ; Dr. 

 Gilford, f?-[iuraviri] ; Mr. Yates apparently adopts Mr, Crane's 

 suggestion. As to BR • Mr. Pegge regarded it as standing for Br- 

 [itannicus], agreeing with C/[audius] ; Mr. Crane, ^/-[itannijo], 

 agreeing with argento ; Dr, Gilford, J?;'[itannorum] governed by 

 "^argentaria; and Sir Henry Elhs, 5y[igantum], governed by far- 

 gentariis, in which opinion Mr. Yates seems to concur. 



As the principal opinions on the doubtful portions of the inscrip- 

 tions have been stated, let us proceed to enquire to which the preference 

 should be given, and whether any other more probable interpretatioa 

 can be proposed. As to LVT", MET • LVT-, and METAL • LVTVD-, 

 there can, I think, be but little doubt that the explanation of Mr. 

 Lysons is to be preferred to those offered by Mr. Crane and Mr. 

 Smith, There is k prima facie probability that MET • and LVT* are 

 shorter forms of METAL • and LVTVD • ; moreover, the blocks on 

 which these abbreviations occur, scil. those bearing nn. (3), (10), (13) 

 and(14), have all been found either in Derbyshire, where was the sta- 

 tion ' Lutudarum,'' or in its neighbourhood, Mansfield, about 6 miles 

 from which n. (14) was found, is only some 12 miles distant from 

 Chesterfield, which is believed to be on or near the site of the ancient 

 'Lutudarum.' The only exception is in the case of the four blocks 

 bearing n. (3), which were found in Sussex, but it may reasonably be 

 inferred relative to these, as to other pigs under similar circumstances, 

 that they were on their way to the coast for shipment to the continent, 

 and were probably the product of mines in Derbyshire, as one bearing 

 the same inscription was found at Matlock in that county. I have 

 said, that there is a prima facie probability that MET • and LVT • are 

 shorter forms of METAL • and LVTVD • : this probability seems to 

 me to reach almost certainty in the case of MET • LVT • in n. (10), 

 but I rather question the inference as it relates to LVT • in nn. (3), 

 and (14). I strongly suspect that LVT- — perhaps an abbreviation 

 of LVTVM — represents the Celtic designation of lead or lead-ore, 

 to which I would trace LVTVDARVM, as a derivative, signifying 

 the place where the veins were found and worked, i.e. the lead mines. 



• I am not sure tliat this was the construction intendrd by cither : perhaps it was Lutu* 

 dari Britannorum and Lutudari Brigantum, i.e., at Lutudarum of the Britons or ot the 

 Brisaiites. 



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