C 101 ] 
Account, which he gives of it, is this : The original 
Stone, in which it is cut, was found at Silchefter, 
within the antient Market Place, about four Feet 
under ground ; and is now in the Poffellion of Mr. 
fiohn Stair of Aldermarfion, who took this Copy of 
it by preffing the Paper into each Letter and Mark 
in the Stone, fo that every Part is exadtly of the fame 
Size and Form with the Original. The two Stops in 
the Shape of Leaves are not cut fo deep as the Let- 
ters, or the triangular Points. The Stone is one Inch 
and five Eighths in Thicknefs ; and thofe Parts of it, 
which are wanting both at the End of the Lines, and 
at the Bottom, were broken off and loll, before it 
was dug out of the Ground. 
With that larger Draught I have alfo fent a leffer, by 
a Scale of one Fourth of it {Jee Tab. II. Fig. 9.). And 
from the ufual Form of fuch votive lnfcriptions, and 
the Manner of exprefling them, I apprehend, there are 
not many Letters loft at the End of the Lines, and but 
one Line wanting at the Bottom ; fo that if all the 
Words were written at Length, and the Line, which 
is wanting, fupplicd, the Whole would run in the 
following Manner. 
Deo Herculi Segontiacorum Titus Tammonius , 
Saenius Tammonius Vitalis , cornicularius t ho- 
noris caufa dedicarunt vel fieri curarunt. 
We find no lefs than fix Altars dedicated to Her- 
cules in Mr. Horfiey s Britannia Romana , two of 
which have the Title DEO prefixed to the Name 
HER.CVLI ( a ), as in this Infcription. But as the 
C c 2 Thinnefs 
s 
[a) Northumb num. lxxxj/xciv. 
