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although lie admits that the usual indicia of a station, 
in fortifications, tumuli, and foundations are wanting, the 
discovery of the additional information by Mr. Hunter, 
furnishes ample proof of the existence of a Roinan population 
at Thick Hollins. However, with the candour which every- 
where distinguishes his admirable writings, I feel persuaded, 
that had he been aware of the important remains at Slack, 
which had not then been brought to light, his name would not 
have been identified with the Cambodunum of Greetland. He 
had evidently sought elsewhere, but on the same iter, for a 
better site than Thick Hollins, in Greetland, aflbrded, and he 
appears to have employed one of his correspondents, Mr. 
Angier, of Heton, to continue the search, who says, " I have 
made another attempt to discover a station about Greetland 
or Bibanden, but without success." " Mr. Camden, indeed, 
gives us an account of a votive altar found there, but says 
nothing of the whereabouts, and it is too long since to expect 
any information from the inhabitants." The Britannia 
Romana was published in 1732, and at that date the learned 
author was dead. He had been aware that the site of one of 
the ten cities of Britain, which had been placed under the 
Latian law, would have left more important traces of its 
existence than Thick Hollins afforded. All that had been 
found there, as we have seen, were an altar and some founda- 
tions of buildings. 
This event happened near three centuries ago, and the 
lingula in Greetland has since then been barren of interest. 
Let us inquire into the claims of Slack. In the year 1750, 
Watson chanced to meet with an unknown altar in a farmer's 
yard in the township of Stainland. He was conducted to 
the spot where it was found. It was at Slack, in the town- 
ship of Longwood, in the parish of Huddersfield ; and 
the inscription upon it indicated that Caius Antonius 
Modestus, centurion of the sixth victorious, pious, and 
