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district. ]\Ir. Greenwell further described the various methods of 
burial both with and without cremation. At the conckision of the 
paper Mr. Fairless Barber drew attention to a number of entrench- 
ments and barrows on Baildon Moor, and suggested that vahiable 
information would be obtained by investigating them. 
In October, in the same year, Mr. H. Ecroyd Smith, author of 
Reliqnias Isurianffi, gave a description of a Romano-British mosaic 
pavement discovered at Aldboro'. The site was known in pre-historic 
Britain as Yseur, the chief city of the warlike Brigantes, the leading 
people of the island at the Roman advent, whose territory stretched 
from the Mersey and Hnmber on the south, up to the Tweed and 
the Solway, and who far surpassed in their ability and energy all the 
more southern tribes, a character ably sustained by their successors, 
and to some extent descendants. The inhabitants of Yorkshire and 
Lancashire excel all tlie rest of England, whether we select arts or 
literature, agriculture or manufactures. On the advent of the Romans 
the place became known as Isurium Brigantum (Yseur of the 
Brigantes), and became the capital of the victorious invaders until, 
after the pacification of the country, the growing necessities of the 
capital of so important a province of Britain induced removal to a 
site more accessible to navigation, which was found lower down the 
river at York ; and here uprose the future metropolis, firstly, of the 
Romans in North Britain ; secondly, of the Saxon King of Northum- 
berland or Deira ; and lastly, of the great ecclesiastical district than 
which not even London itself is more famous throughout the national 
annals. The mosaic pavement is apparently of Romano-British manu- 
facture, probably referable to the end of the third or beginning of 
the fourth century, and is one of a number which have been found 
at Aldboro'. It is four feet square, and represents Romulus and 
Remus suckled by a wolf, and was probably the central portion of a 
much larger pavement. In 1863 it was purchased and deposited in 
the museum of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Leeds. The 
mosaic is made from pieces of blue lias and magnesian limestone. 
The tessera), of a red colour, are artificial, being of baked clay. 
At a meeting held at Rotherham in April, 1868, the Rev. R. J. 
Mapleton, M.A., contributed a lengthy and elaborate paper on the 
