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skeleton to which it had probably belonged, beside which 

 one or two tiny glass beads decorated with gold leaf were 

 picked up. At 12 feet an altar was discovered, which stands 

 4 feet high and bears the following inscription to Jupiter: — 



I • O • M 

 G • A R R I V S 

 DOMITIANVS 

 ) LEG . XXV-V. 

 V • S • L • L • M • 



Beneath the altar lay a 1st brass coin of the Emperor Hadrian. 

 Going down through a black wet deposit many animal bones 

 were discovered, and towards the bottom, which was reached 

 at 25-6 feet, there were found a complete human skull 

 and a portion of a second. Near these lay some 350 brass 

 armour scales, part of an iron corselet mounted with brass, 

 a couple of knives, one with its handle of bone, the boss of 

 a shield, several beautifully formed arrow-heads of iron, a 

 bill-hook, a linch pin, an iron bar, remains of two oak 

 buckets, portions of querns, many fragments of leather and 

 of great earthenware jars, and finally a stone on which was 

 carved rudely, the boar, symbol of the twentieth legion. 



