ROMAN BROUGH : = ANAVIO. I97 



NOTES ON THE INSCRIBED TABLET, AND ON THE 

 ROMANO-BRITISH NAME OF BROUGH. 



By F. Haverfield, M.A., F.S.A., Hon. F.S.A. Scot. 

 Censor and Tutor of Christ Church, Oxford. 



I. 



The Tablet. 





HE principal epigraphic discovery made at Brough 

 in 1903 consists in four fragments of an inscribed 

 slab of millstone grit, found on August 21-24 m 

 a sunk chamber inside the fort. One fragment, 

 bearing the letters SCOPRAF, was in the wall of the chamber, 

 serving as a wall stone; the rest were found about half- 

 way between the floor of the chamber and the surface of 

 the ground, lying loose in the mud and debris which filled 

 up the chamber. The largest fragment, which forms the centre 

 of the slab, is worn as if it had been much trodden and had 

 formed at some time a step or a paving flag. I have examined 

 the fragments myself: I am also indebted to Mr. Garstang for 

 various information concerning them. See Plates VIII. and 

 IX., which he has prepared. 



When perfect the inscribed slab was probably an oblong 

 panel with a plain moulded border, measuring over all two and 

 a half or two and three-quarters feet in height, some four and 

 a half feet in length and four inches in thickness. The inscrip- 

 tion was in six lines, the first five each two inches high, the 

 sixth two and one-third inches. It can be completed with 

 some certainty as follows : — 



