BY THE HEV. DU. HOOPPELL. 



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nails in a Eoman Military Uoot, (Woodcut, I^o. 11). I have also 

 another lettered fragment, a piece of an amphora, (nearly the 

 whole of the vessel, of which it is a part, having been at the 

 same time found in fragments,) with a portion of an inscription 



No. 11. 



upon it. I have also the patera I have already spoken of, and 

 the central portion of another with scratched inscription. I have 

 also brought specimens of figured Samian, of a Samian mortarium 

 of a white mortarium, and of many different kinds of ornamented 

 pottery. I have here also a portion of a sword, a portion of a 

 spear, a whetstone, a bone knife-handle or other implement, the 

 lamp, a curious piece of glass, the spur of a fighting cock, and 

 several scores of small articles, many of them very curious, com- 

 prising, amongst other things, several fibulae, the writing stilus, 

 an unguent spoon, an ornamented, glass bead, a large metal ring, 

 and several smaller ones of bone and metal, the very handsome 

 enamelled, equestrian ornaments, a curious, jet pyramid, many 

 pins, and some spindle whorls. I have also a stone axe head or 

 chisel, which was found immediately above the Roman level, and 

 belonged, in my opinion, to the builders of the dry stone walls, 

 the altar table, and the semi-circle. 



I have, too, a very curious, holed stone, which was found 

 among the pebbles which had been brought from the sliorc to 

 fill the chamber in the southwest corner of the temple, or basil- 

 ica, near the western rampart, and the most feasible expluuatiou 



