130 On a Roman Bronze Patella from Palace, &c. 



TACITI [of or belonging to Tacitus], rudely scratched on the 

 bottom." 



In a letter of date 29th March 1886, Mr Stephens adds a few 

 other remarks. 



" The measurements of the larger vessel are : height, 3f ins.; 

 diameter of mouth, 6 ins. ; diameter of base, 4 ins. ; length of 

 handle, b\ ins.: of the smaller leaden vessel — height, 2 A- ins.; 

 diameter of mouth, 3£ ins. ; and of base, 2^- ins. 



"In looking over an old volume of the " Archseologia " of the 

 London Society of Antiquaries, I came upon a representation of 

 what seems to be almost a fac-simile of my Patella. See vol. xi., 

 p. 105. A short descriptive account accompanies the engraving, 

 from which it appears that the vessel, together with a smaller 

 one very much broken, was found near Dumfries, in the summer 

 of 1790. 



"An interesting fact in connection with the one I possess — which 

 I omitted to mention in my letter to Mr Blair — is that it has 

 been neatly mended by its Soman owner. A small piece of thin 

 bronze or other metal has been soldered on one side to stop a 

 leak. 



" Mr Blair gives the number of the rings correctly in his cut." 



[The bottom of a bronze skillet, formed with concentric circles 

 in high relief, was found in a large camp called the " Guards" 

 near the river Am at Bolton, and was presented to the Society of 

 Antiquaries of Newcastle, by Sir David Smith. Catalogue of 

 Mus. of Arch. Institute, Edinburgh, 1856, p. 61.] 



On a Roman Bronze Patella from Palace near Crailing, 

 Roxburghshire, and some other examples from Scotland. 



The Council of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland enable me 

 to re-produce the representation' of an example of a Roman 

 Bronze Patella from the vicinit}' of the Watling Street, in its 

 progress northwards from Redesdale, which is not only valuable 

 to contrast with the Northumbrian example, but greatly to be 

 prized as an addition to the Club's local record of Antiquities 

 found on the Borders. The account of it is contained in a paper 

 entitled " Notice of a Eoman Bronze Patella, found on the farm 

 of Palace in Teviotdale, Roxburghshire, by John Alex. Smith, 

 M.D." — Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot, iv., p. 595, et seq. 



