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road, and no one ever thought of looking for it. Mr. Roach Smith 

 has given some account of this discovery in his " Collectanea," 

 vol. iii. p. 218 ; and in the same volume, p. 103, he has given a 

 longer and still more interesting account of the extensive remains, 

 at the village of Jublains, in the department of Mayenne, of the 

 ancient chief town of the Diablintes, which, until recently, had been 

 almost as little known. The whole district of Mayenne and Jub- 

 lains is, indeed, almost unknown ground ; and Mr. Roach Smith 

 informs us that, on his visit to Jublains, he found in the woods 

 remains of large buildings, the walls of which had been cased with 

 thin slabs of polished marbles of various kinds, and an amphi- 

 theatre, not excavated. 



We have just received information of an interesting discovery 

 lately made in this last-mentioned district. At a particular part of 

 the river, where there seems to have been a bridge or ford, in the 

 route from Jublains to Avranches, portions of a milestone have 

 been found, and upwards of three thousand coins, many of which 

 are of the flower of the die, having been preserved from the action 

 of the air by the water, precisely like those found in the Thames at 

 London Bridge. Of these coins, three are consular, many of 

 Augustus, seven hundred of Claudius, many of Nero, more than 

 five hundred of Tiberius, others of Caligula, Germanicus, Hadrian, 

 Nerva, Trajan, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian; some rare colonial 

 coins ; five or six of the two Faustinas. Of the lower empire there 

 appears to be only a few, three of which are of Gallienus, Postumus, 

 and Tetricus. Among other remains found with them are a bronze 

 axe, or, as we understand it, one of those implements our anti- 

 quaries are accustomed to call celts. The miliary column alluded 

 to has an inscription, of which only the following letters 

 remain : — ... 



NIO.V 

 IN7IG 

 AUG. P. 

 ).IIII 



The last line gives, no doubt, the distance from Jublains, the capital 

 town of the Diablintes (about four miles) . 



We can hardly allude to the progress of archaeology in the 

 month of February, without a passing word on the loss of one of 

 the great patrons of this science, who has just been gathered to 

 his fathers. The late Duke of Northumberland was a zealous and 

 enlightened encourager of antiquarian research, especially in that 

 part of England in which his own ancestral" estates chiefly lay. He 

 had patronised largely the labours of Dr. Bruce on the antiquities 

 and history of that great monument of the Romans in Britain, the 

 wall of Hadrian ; and he had expended large sums of money in an 

 efficient survey not only of the Wall, but of the other Roman 

 remains in Northumberland, the result of which was an important 

 work, printed for private distribution, under the title, " The Roman 

 Wall, and Illustrations of the Principal Vestiges of Roman Occu- 

 pation in the North of England ; consisting of Plans of the Mili- 

 tary Works, the Stations, Camps, Ancient Ways, etc., from Original 



