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with the fame infer! ption, and a triumphal arch on 
the reverfe, as Camden obferves ; who places it in 
the year yo, which anfwers to the ninth tribunefhip 
of Claudius. And the like may be faid of another 
fuch infeription upon a peice of lead, weighing about 
fifty pounds, and found in the fame county j which 
is publifhed by Horfley, and is as follows : 
IMP. DVOR. AVG. ANTON IN I 
ET VERI ARMEN IACORVM (33).. 
It was then in the library of the lord vifeount Wey- 
mouth at Longleat (34,) ; though upon inquiry I do 
not find, that it is there now (35). But it was not 
unufual with the antients to cut inferiptions fome- 
times on tables of lead. Thus Tacitus fais Ac- 
periebantur folo cic parietibus erutae humanorum cor- 
porum reliquiae , car puna tt devotiones , ct nomen Ger- 
manici plumbeis tdbulis infculptum'^ 6 )i And Dion, 
fpeaking of the fame fubjedt, calls them, Ia xtrfAoi fxo- 
2 . 1 % frivoi (37). However, thole large and thick mafies 
of lead deferibed by Camden, and reprefented by the 
draught, feem to have differed no lefs from thefe 
( 33 ) birit. Rem. Somerfeijh. num. x. (34.) Ibid. pag. 328. 
(35) The Rev. Dr. Stukeley has fince obliged me with a rtiore 
particular account of this plate of lead, as it was communicated to* 
him by the Right Honourable Heneage Earl of Winchelfea. The 
Dodlor fais, it was one foot nine inches long, two inches thick, 
three and a half broad; weighed fifty pounds ; and was found in the 
ground of the Lord Fitzharding, near Bruton in Somerfetfhire. A 
draught of which, with the infeription, may likewife be feen in 
his Itinerar. Curie f p. 143. 
(36) Annal, Lib. II. cap. 69. (37) Lib.LV II. pag. 615, 
edit.. Leundav. 
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