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ROMAN REMAINS AT FILEY. 
BY THE REV. E. MAULE COLE, M.A., F.G.S. 
A. — Previous Notices. 
I. — Original paper by W. S. Cortis, M.D., published in the 
Scarborough Philosophical and Archaeological Society's 
Reports, XXVI. (1858), p. 18 sq. 
Full title — " Remarks on the Discovery of Roman and 
British Remains at Filey, Yorkshire, in October, 1857, 
with some observations on the Position of Portus 
Felix and Praetorium." Gives aU particulars, with 
plan of ruins as excavated, drawing of squared stones, 
now in Filey Gardens, of remains of pottery and 
inscription on slab of shale, 
Caesar se 
Quam spe 
II. — Paper by John Phillips, in Yorkshire Philosophical 
Society's Proceedings, 1858. Very brief ; does not 
mention the inscription. 
III. — Whellan's Yorkshire, II. (Beverley, 1859), from Cortis. 
IV. — Wright, Intellectual Observer, VIII. (1866), p. 234. 
Read at Durham Archaeological Association Congress. 
He saw the inscription. 
V. — Hiibner, Ephemesis Epigraphica, iii.. No. 125, p. 143. 
VI. — Watkin, Archaeological Journal, 31 (1874), p. 349. The 
two latter follow Wright. 
VII. — Cole, Paper on Roman Roads, E.R. East Riding 
Antiquarian Society's Transactions, Vol. VII. (1899), 
p. 42, 43. 
B. — Brief History of Find. 
After some heavy rains in the autumn of 1857 a landslip 
took place on the N. side of the boulder-clay chffs of Carr Naze, 
which attracted the attention of a painter at Filey, named 
