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REPORT OF THE 
Antiquarian Department. —The past year has not added 
much to the Antiquarian contents of the Museum. Excava¬ 
tions carried on within and without Micklegate Bar, on the 
line of the Roman road to Calcaria, have produced some remains 
of the Roman period, but no sculptured or inscribed stone. 
In another part of York, however, a very remarkable inscrip¬ 
tion has been brought to light. In the process of renewing 
the Church of St. Mary, Castlegate, the original dedication 
stone was discovered. The inscription is partly in Saxon, 
partly in Latin. It has suffered from time, and from the use 
to which it had been applied by former builders of the Church, 
so that some words are obliterated and others imperfect, enough 
however remains to show that the Church had been erected in 
the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, St. Mary, St. 
Cuthbert, St. Martin, and All Saints, by three Saxon proprietors. 
The date of the consecration is imperfect, from the fracture of the 
stone ; and the last line can only be restored by conjectiue. It 
has been the subject of discussion by Archdeacon Jones, the 
Bishop of Lincoln, the Rev. Canon Walker, and the Rev. D. 
H. Haigh. A paper by the latter was read at the December 
meeting of the Society. A small portion of a Roman tessellated 
pavement was found under a buttress in the same church, but 
unfortunately has not been preserved. It is expected that 
extensive excavations will be undertaken by the North Eastern 
Railway Company, preparatory to the erection of a new station. 
The ground marked out for this piupose may be expected to 
contain important remains of antiquity, and the Council trust 
that the Duectors will kindly take measures to secure their 
being placed in their only proper repository, the Museum of 
the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 
A portion of a sculptured Saxon Cross has been presented to 
the Museum by Edmund Waterton, Esq., of Walton Hall, 
through the kind offices of Fairless Barber, Esq., and the Rev. 
Canon Raine. 
An important addition has been made to the Antiquarian 
department of the Library in the volume of the Inscriptiones 
Latinse, containing those found in Spain. This country has 
furnished a large number of Roman inscriptions, but forgeries 
