T94 ROMAN BROUGH : = ANAVIO. 



indicated is the name of the Cohort, COHORS I. AQVITA- 

 NORVM. It is not suggested that this was a detachment, 

 specially detailed for engineering work : probably the First 

 Cohort of Aquitanians constituted the garrison of Anavio at 

 that time. 



The Coh. I. Aquitanorum, however, is well known. It is 

 mentioned as sub Platorio Nepote on the Tabula Honestce 

 Missionis ;■'- it occurs again on an altar seen at Haddon Hall, 

 near Bakewell, where one Q. Sittius Cacilianus is described 

 as Prcefectus ;\ and again at Carrawburgh, whence the informa- 

 tion seems to be much the same as that of the first cited.} 



The present tablet adds, then, considerably to our knowledge 

 of this cohort ; it also forms a main guide by which to relate 

 Roman Brough to its proper position in military Roman Britain. 



II. — Altars. (a) An altar of coarse stone, fairly well pre- 

 served, but with a vexatiously indecipherable inscription (Fig. 7, 

 No. 3), was also found in the bottom of the praetorium pit. 

 It is 19 inches high and about 12 inches square. The four 

 lines of inscription are enclosed in a wreath or circular band 

 with continued ends, between which is a chiselled mark. 

 Beyond a probability that the first line read T>EJE and the last 

 line V. S. L. M. — both common forms — nothing has been made 

 of this inscription, though many devices have been tried. 



(b) A smaller altar, of finer stone, nicely moulded, but lacking 

 the lower portion (Fig. 7, No. 4), was found in the same pit. 

 It may be guessed that the reading is DEO MARTI, indicating 

 a dedication to Mars, but that is only a matter of opinion, and 

 nothing is certain. 



(c) A large altar, with typical mouldings, had lain exposed 

 to the weather in the village of Hope for some time, having 

 been brought, presumably, from Brough (Fig. 7, No. 5). It has 

 now been lent by Mrs. Middleton, who owns it, to the Public 

 Museum at Buxton, where the other objects are placed on 

 exhibition. 



* Corpus Inscr. Lat. vii., No. 1195. 



t C. I. L., No. 176, and Vol. vii., p. 90, of this Journal, 



JC. I. L., 620 a. 



