FOUND IN BRITAIN. 37 



•whilst in every other instance in which an Emperor is named, we 

 always have some one or other, warrants the suspicion, that the refer- 

 ence to the Emperor Claudius is erroneous. I am inclined to think 

 that TI. CL. TR. are the initials of some private individual, such as 

 those named in nn. (13) and (14). 



"We have an example of similar abbreviations on'the medicine stamp 

 found at "Wroxeter in 1808. According to Mr. Wright's readings, 

 ■Journal of Arehceol. Assoc, vol. 1859, p. 317, the name of the em- 

 piric who prepared it, was TIB • CL • M • i.e. 2Vi[erii] (7/[audii] 

 Jlif[edici], but both reading and expansion seem very doubtful. lu 

 the Celt, Roman, and Saxon, p. 244, he read IBCLM, and thus Mr. 

 Way and Dr. Simpson, the latter of whom proposes the expansion 

 »7[ulii] jB[assi] CX[e] m[entis]. Similarly also we find the abbrevia* 

 tions of names on potters' work, in Fabretti, p. 503, and Orelli, ii., 

 p. 372. It is of course impossible for me to surmise for what cogno- 

 men, according to this supposition, TR* stands, but I suppose that it 

 was such as T/'[ophimus] or 7'/-[ajanus] of which we have examples 

 with T2[berius] CZ[audius]. 



On comparing un. (3) and (14) a difference of order — LVT* BR* 

 and BRIT • LVT • — is observable, but this is, I think, nothing more 

 than the variety of collocation of the adjective, which is often found, 



I would read nn. (3) and (14) thus : — 



jre[berii] C/[audii] 2'r[****J iM^[**] 5r[itannicum] ex «r^[_ent 

 aria] ; 



C[aii] /?<Z[iiJ Proti Britlaximcnm] iw<[**] ex ar^[entaria]. 



We may now proceed to nn. (10) and (14). 



IMP. CAES. HADRIANI. AVG. MET. LVT. 



/;n|j[eratoris] CcB5[aris] Hadriani Aug[nsi\\ i/ef[alla] iM^[udensia.] 

 L. ARVCONI. VERECVNDI. METAL. LVTVD. 



X[ucii] Aruconi\'\\ Verecundi Metal[\?i\ iM^M6?[ensia]. 



Mr. Yates, p. 1 1, remarks : " Aruconius appears to be a name of 

 British origin. Perbaps this Lucius had removed to Lutudar from 

 Ariconium, the modern Weston in Herefordshire and an important 

 mining station of the Romans." If there be any connexion between 

 Ariico7iius and Arhonium, it seems more probable that the name of 

 the place was derived from the name of the person th.an v. v. 



Nn. (1) and (9) remain for consideration before we proceed to 

 n. (4). 



