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ANGLO-ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 
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iEsculapius and sacrificial instruments. On the other are the cornu- 
copise and rudder of Fortune, a patera and jug. Found near the 
Watergate, Chester, in 1779; presented by Sir Ph. de Malpas Grey 
Egerton, Bart ., 1836. 
COMPARTMENT II. 
On the wall: four other portions of the Withington pavement, repre¬ 
senting birds and animals. 
Underneath : three Roman altars, with bas-reliefs in front, one re¬ 
presenting Ceres, the other two Mars or Romulus. Found at King 
Stanley, in Gloucestershire; presented by the Rev. P. Hawker, 1812. 
Two other altars very similar. 
Plain Roman altar. Found by Dr. Ormerod in a tumulus, Led - 
bury Park, Monmouthshire. Presented by the Archeological Institute 
of Great Britain and Ireland, 1851. 
Front of Second Pilaster. —An altar with a Greek inscription, de¬ 
dicated by Biodora, a high priestess to the Tyrian Hercules; on one 
side is a bull’s head, on the other a sacrificing knife, and crown. 
Found at Corbridge, Northumberland. Presented by the Duke of 
Northumberland, in 1774. 
COMPARTMENT III. 
On the wall: two more portions of the Withington pavement, and a 
fragment of the border of a tesselated pavement discovered at Wood- 
chester, Gloucestershire. Presented by Samuel Lysons, Esq., 1808. 
Underneath : Roman sarcophagus, discovered at Binstead, in Hamp¬ 
shire. It contained, when found, several very small earthen vessels. 
Presented by Henry Long, Esq., 1851. 
A stone sarcophagus found at Southfleet, in Kent, within the site of 
a building fifty feet square, in the year 1831 ; in the sarcophagus were 
two glass vessels, each containing burnt bones, and much liquid ; be¬ 
tween them two pairs of shoes of purple leather embroidered with 
gold. Near the sarcophagus were found the remains of a w ooden box, 
with the brass clamps and round-headed brass nails by w r hich it was 
held together, and w 7 ith them two bottles of red pottery, and two pans 
of the same, on which were some ashes and two small rib bones. At 
some little distance was found a globular earthen vessel, which con¬ 
tained some burnt bones, and the remains of a small'glass bottle, and 
is capable of holding about six gallons. All these objects are pre¬ 
served in the British Room up-stairs. Presented by the Pev . J. 
Rashleigh, in 1836. 
Front of Third Pilaster. —Five Roman pigs of lead, viz.:— 
A pig of lead, inscribed with the name of the Emperor Domitian 
when he was consul for the eighth time, a.d. 82, weighing 154 lbs. 
It w'as discovered in 1731 under ground, on Hayshaw Moor, in 
the West Riding of Yorkshire, halfwvay between an ancient lead 
mine, north of Pateley Bridge, and the Roman road from Ilkley, 
Olicana, to Aldborough, Isurium. Bequeathed by Sir J. Ingleby, 
Bart., and presented by his Executors, 1772. 
A pig of lead, inscribed with the name of the Emperor Hadrian, 
weighing 191 lbs.; found in 1796 or 1797, at Snailbeach Farm, 
