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of Wakefield, which lie found in the Bodleian. The note 
states : — " That in the latter end of the month of April, 
An. Dom. 1597, Anno Elizabeths Reginaa 39, one Thomas 
Miles, a labouring man, and J ohn Hallywell, digging upon 
a lawe of stones at the back of the house of Jeffery Ramsden, 
at the Thick Hollins, did light upon a stone squared, in 
length about a yard, having Roman characters, on two sides, 
engraven, and being plain on the other two sides, having 
partizans or crests at the top and at the bottom, with some 
flourishes ; which stone had four holes at the top, whereunto 
it should seem some other thing had been fastened, and the 
foot thereof had stood upon a square stone wrought with 
partizans, &c. The characters contained five lines on one 
side, and but two on the other, and were very difficult to 
read. There was abo found in the said lawes, and in other 
places thereabouts, divers foundations of houses, and some 
Eoman coins, and squared stones and thick stones, with iron 
nails, in the earth, in divers places of the ground, called 
Thickhollins, lying upon the height near the Clay House, 
near unto Linwell." 
A drawing of the Altar, which accompanies this account, 
identifies it with the one described by Camden. An account 
and engraving of this altar will also be found in Watson. 
The inscription is to the effect that it was " Dedicated by 
Titus Aurelius Aurelianus to the God of the states of the 
Brigantes, and to the Deities of the Emperor, on behalf of 
himself and his, in grateful remembrance of the success of 
their undertaking." The altar was erected at the beginning 
of the third century, about the time of the expedition of 
Severus and his sons, Antoninus Caracalla, and Septimius 
Geta, against the Caledonians. 
Horsley, with the statement of Camden before him, and 
in the then state of information on the subject, was justified 
in fixing the site of Cambodunum at Thick Hollins. And 
