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In the eighteenth iter of Roman Roads in Britain, compiled 
or transcribed by Richard of Cirencester, we find, in a sta- 
tion named Ad Fines (eighteen Roman miles from Legeo- 
hum, Castleford), a singular reflex of the word Rother, 
which the celebrated glossarist, Baxter, defines as a British 
word, signifying boundary; and this, to my mind, furnishes 
important evidence that the neighbourhood of Rotherham 
constituted the boundary of the Brigantes, and also of the 
above-named Roman provinces. 
The Roman station, Ad Fines, is, by all antiquaries, 
believed to have been in the neighbourhood of Rotherham — 
Whitaker, the acute historian, of Manchester, placing it at 
Greasborough, and Mr. Hunter at Templeborough, where a 
Roman camp has been. But there is even stronger evidence 
than this. In the fourth iter of Richard of Cirencester, it 
is stated that at Danuni (Doncaster) the road entered the 
province of Maxima Caesariensis — that is, as I take it, on 
crossing the Don — clearly enough proving, at all events, that 
the large tract of country east of the Don, now included in 
Yorkshire, did not form part of the province of Maxima 
Caesariensis. 
Scattered throughout Haliamshire many Roman coins have 
been discovered. A hoard of about twenty of the coins of 
Hadrian, some years ago was found at Crookes. But a more 
important discovery of Roman remains was made in 1761, 
when, at the Lawns, or rather Launds, near Stannington, two 
manumission tablets of copper were ploughed up. They are 
now in the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries, and, being 
partly defaced, are not easily deciphered. Their purport, 
however, can be gathered. They are decrees of the Emperor 
Trajan, conferring upon Roman Legionaries, as marks of 
honour and reward, the rights of Roman citizenship. Such 
grants were inscribed on plates of copper or brass, and, after 
being registered at Rome, were, it appears, sent to where 
