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which, in consequence of their numbers, are placed first. The few 

 Celtic antiquities are next described ; then the fragments which may 

 he called early Welch ; and lastly the Mediaeval remains and the 

 objects of later date. In the description of the Roman remains the 

 arrangement of Mr. Wilde, in the Catalogue of the Museum of the 

 Royal Irish Academy, has been adopted ; and they are classed under 

 the heads of stone, earthen, vegetable, animal, and metallic materials, 

 — the coins being described last. Of the Numismatic relics, of which 

 there are specimens beginning with Claudius and ending with Honorius 

 and Arcadius, a well prepared list has been furnished by the Rev. 

 C. W. King, so favourably known by his valuable contributions to 

 our knowledge of antique gems. Of the Latin inscriptions there are 

 — exclusively of those on fictile remains — about twenty that are per- 

 fect, some on altars and tablets and others on grave-stones. The 

 most remarkable of these is the following : — 



IMPP • VALERIAN VS ET GALLIENVS 

 AVGGET VALERIANVS-NOBILISSIMVS 

 CAES • COHORTI • VII • CENTVRIAS • A SO 

 LO RESTITVERVNT • PER • DESTICIVM IVBAM 

 VC LEGATVM • AVGG • PRPR • ET 

 VITVALSIVM L^TINIANVM LEG LEG 

 II • AVG • CVRANTE • DOMIT • POTENTINO 

 PRAEF • LEG • EIVSDEM. 



i.e., Imperatores Valerianus et Gallienus Augusti et Valerianus nobil- 

 issimus Csesar cohorti (not cohortis, as Mr. Lee gives it) septimae 

 ceriturias a solo restituerunt per Desticium Jubam virum clarissimum 

 legatum Augustorura propraetore et Vitulasium Laetinianum legatum 

 legionis secundae Augustae curante Domitio Potentino praefecto le- 

 gionis ejusdem. 



This inscription has two peculiarities which we have not observed 

 in any other. The first is the use of centurias which Mr. Lee cor- 

 rectly explains as meaning "soldiers^ quarters," — the other, which 

 Mr. Lee does not notice, is the singular mention of a legate and a 

 praefect at the same time in the same legion. Of this the most 

 probabls explanation seems to us to be, that Domitius Potentiuus was 

 praefectus castrorum. 



In the restoration and interpretation of the less perfect inscriptions, 

 we notice two examples from amongst those found at Caerleon, but not 

 now in the Museum, in which the ingenuity and learning of a dis- 

 tinguished fellow-townsman, whose communications have occasionally 



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