22 REPORT OF MEETINGS FOR 1901 



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exceedingly massive land abutments on each bank. Returning, 

 by the line of the Wall, to the eastern gateway of the Camp, 

 a cutting was passed showing the great Wall perfect to a 

 height of about four feet and nearly eight feet wide. 



The eastern gateway was similar in its masonry and its 

 general design to the opposite westeru gateway. Adjoining 

 it, to the north, was a large block of buildings recently 

 excavated, which appears to have been barracks and officers' 

 quarters, the main street in them having had a covered 

 colonnade running down each side of it. When first excavated 

 one of the rooms iu the officers' quarters contained a fire-place 

 of stone, which, unfortunately, was not preserved. The horses 

 were probably stabled in buildings constructed like the early 

 British dwellings of "wattle and dab" — a method of con- 

 struction which survived until quite recent times. 



The pretorium was the last portion of the Camp visited, 

 and its cloister-like courtyard, its great central chamber, with its 

 five inner chambers, one of which has an enclosed vaulted 

 chamber below the ground level, that probably held the treasure 

 chest of the garrison, were all examined with interest. After 

 leaving the Gamp the Museum occupied the remainder of 

 the time. Among many attractive objects were noted a 

 recently found slab, recording the bringing of water to the 

 Camp by the second cohort of Astures, under the command 

 of Ulpius Marcellus, Augustan legate and pro-pretor ; and 

 some stone figures brought from the Mithraic cave, excavated 

 at Borcovicus in 1898, representing Tibicenes (pipe-players) 

 cross-legged as usual ; but, possibly, the most interesting 

 group of objects were those found in the votive well, dedicated 

 to the goddess Goventina, which was discovered at Procolitia 

 (Carrawburgh) in 1878, in which twenty-six altars, many 

 of which were inscribed, various other inscribed stones and 

 tablets, rings and various metal ornaments, and an enormous 

 deposit of about twenty thousand coins of brass and silver, 

 with five of gold, besides other objects too numerous to recount, 

 go to make up a Roman hoard which is probably the finest 

 ever found in Britain. 



At lunch time some of the members were kindly entertained 

 by Mrs Clayton, in the house of Chesters ; others of the 

 large party enjoyed a meal " al fresco" near the Museum 



