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legionary tablet, of which, unfortunately, the greater part has 

 been broken off and lost. What remains, however, is sufiBcient 

 to show that the tablet was carved by the soldiers of the 

 twentieth legion, as the running boar, the symbol of the legion, 

 is carved on it.* The fragment is 11^ inches in height and 

 3^ inches in thickness. In the lower corner is the boar running 

 to the right, while above is the usual crescent-shaped scroll 

 common on Roman legionary slabs and tablets. Perched on 

 top of the crescent is a bird represented as pecking at a fruit 

 in the shape of a fir-cone. Between the scroll and inscribed 

 panel is an object in the shape of a Roman standard, decorated 

 with one square and three circular panels, placed at equal 

 distances apart. Close to the edge of the fracture is cut a 

 small bay leaf, such as commonly divides the words of an 

 inscription on Roman monuments. This and the two left-hand 

 arms of the letter X (>) are all that is left of the inscription. 

 A cast of the stone is in the National Museum. 



The remaining relics found at Cappuck include: — (1) Portion 

 of a lower stone of a quern of scoriaceous lava; (2) the rim 

 or mouth of a large amphora of yellowish clay, 3f inches in 

 internal diameter ; (3) handle of an amphora, measuring 6 J 

 inches in length and 6 J inches in circumference; (4) the spout 

 portion of a mortarium of reddish-yellow clay; (5) the bottoms, 

 with part of the sides, of two vessels or jars of dark coloured 

 grey ware, each, when perfect, probably 10 to 12 inches in 

 height; (6) portion of the everted rim of a large vessel of 

 similar dark grey ware, ornamented on the outside with a 

 faintly incised zigzag line ; (7) and a portion of the everted 

 rim of a bowl-shaped vessel of reddish brick-coloured clay. 



A tripod cooking pot of brass of mediaeval date, 9f inches 

 in height and 6^ inches across the mouth, found in digging 



* The twentieth legion was one of the four sent over in a.d. 43 by 

 the Emperor Claudius, and it would appear to have remained in Britain 

 until nearly the close of the period of the Roman occupation of this 

 country. Although the legion had its headquarters at Chester, the 

 Deva of the Romans (see " Origins of Deva " in the Journal of the 

 Architectural, Archaeological, and Historical Society of Chester, Vol. v., 

 pp. 99-103) it was also engaged in active service in other parts of 

 Britain ; and in Scotland it was employed in the erection of the 

 Antonine Wall between the Firth of Clyde and the Forth. As the 

 legion is not mentioned in the " Notitia," it therefore probably had 

 been withdrawn from Britain before the compilation of that document. 



