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IV.— MISCELLANEOUS REMAINS DISCOVERED. 



Inscribed Tablet — Altars — Architectural. 



I. — Inscribed tablet. While excavating the pit described in 

 the last section four fragments of a large inscribed tablet were 

 discovered. These are shown by photograph on Plate VIII. 

 They, practically, give the whole of the essential part of the 

 text and enable a satisfactory restoration to be made, showing 

 the whole tablet to have been about 54 inches in length and 

 30 inches in height. The inscribed portion was about 38 inches 

 by 19, that is, just twice as long as broad. The letters are 

 about 2 inches high, those of the bottom row, only, being a 

 little taller. The moulding simulates a torus with ovolo, and 

 a plain band round all ; the inscribed surface is below the face 

 of the stone. 



The restoration of the inscription is somewhat as shown on 

 Plate IX. Mr. F. Haverfield has very kindly contributed a 

 note upon the epigraphy of this stone, about which, therefore, 

 it is not necessary to say anything. The inscription tells of the 

 work effected by the Commander of the Cohort I. of Aqui- 

 tanians, at a time when Julius Verus governed Britain, and 

 Antoninus Pius was Emperor — about the middle of the second 

 century. The only doubtful point in the restoration, probably, 

 is the name of the Commander or Prsefectus, the first letters of 

 which are uncertain. Possibly a late discovery may solve this 

 point. These fragments were all found in the pit or well within 

 the prsetorium, and it is reasonable to believe that the tablet 

 itself was erected in the same vicinity to commemorate the com- 

 pletion of some work, possibly the building of the fort itself. 

 Subsequently, during reconstructions, the stone was broken up. 

 One portion was built into the well at the time the staircase 

 was made. Another was used as a floor stone elsewhere, to be 

 thrown at a later time into the well itself. It is probable, from 

 the positions of the two smaller pieces and their preservation, 

 that they, too, had been built into the wall of the well in an 

 upper course, and had afterwards fallen into the places in which 

 they were found. Perhaps the point of greatest local interest 



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