384 Remains of the Roman Station at Cappuck. 



It is thus described by Dr Bruce : — " The stone of which you 

 have sent me a cast, found in this newly-found camp, is an 

 interesting one, and has a strong likeness to some of the stones 

 found on the line of the Antonine Wall (Grraham's Dike). On 

 the bottom of the left side is the figure of a boar — the badge of 

 the Twentieth Lej^ion ; and on the flat table is part of an X. 

 I have no doubt the inscription has been something like the 

 following : — 



LEG 

 X X-V. V. 



FEC(it) 

 [Leg. XX — Valeria- Yictrix. 

 The Victorious Valerian 20th Legion."] 



In " Koman Cheshire," by W. Thompson Watkin, page 

 125, we find the following reference to the Twentieth 



Legion : — 



" Its first appearance, as far as historical notices are concerned is, that 

 it was one of the legions which were under the control of Mark Antony. 

 During the triumvirate, coins of the Antonia gens, of this period are extant 

 (and have even been found in Chester) on which its name occurs with the 

 abbreviation Leg. XX. 



We next hear of it in the earlier part of the reign of Augustus, in 

 Illyricum, where it has left inscriptions. It was at that time under the 

 orders of Valerius Messalinus, for whom it won a triumph." 



Again on page 127 we have more important information concerning 

 these legions. " In addition to the inscriptions which this legion has left 

 on the Walls of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, we find others recording 

 either its presence or that of some of its members at Cramond (Midlothian) 

 Bildon (Roxburghshire), Middleby (Dumfriesshire), Netherby, Maryport, 

 Moresby, and Bewcastle in Cumberland, High Rochester in Northumber- 

 land, Lanchester (co. Durham), Natland and Crawdundale in Westmor- 

 land, Manchester and Ribchester in Lancashire, Caerhun (Carnarvonshire) 

 Hope or Caergwile (Flintshire), near Farndon (Cheshire), Wroxeter, 

 Whittlebury (Northants), Colchester, London, and Bath. 



At many of these places it seems to have done important work. Monu- 

 ments of discharged veterans of the legion, or of members who appear to 

 have died whilst on leave of absence, during the time it was in Britain, 

 have been found in various parts of the Roman world. 



The legion had for its distinctive badge a wild boar, which is frequently 

 represented on the inscriptions it has erected." 



