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unfortunately, only six letters of the inscription have been 
preserved. They constitute the ends of the two last lines 
C V R 
O.S.P. 
Of course any reading of this fragment can only be of the 
most conjectural character. The last two letters probably 
stand for sua iiecunia. It is much to he hoped that some 
farther portions of this inscription may he discovered. 
There have been recently placed in the Musemn two silver 
rings, each of which hears an inscription. The first was found 
some two years ago upon Barker Hill, and when it was 
cleaned with acid the two words DEO SHCELO disclosed 
themselves. The god Sucelus is entirely unknown. Probably 
he was some local divinity. There was a place of a similar 
name in Spain, and it is easy of com^se to form a theory that 
some soldier of the 9th, or the Spanish legion, brought this 
ring with him to York. 
The other ring bears the letters TOT, which are still more 
difficult to explain. It was found on the new railway works. 
Dr. Hiibner suggests the possibility of Mars Toutates having 
been intended. But this is entirely conjectural, and so also is 
the idea that TOT represents toUis, to be rendered perhaps 
icJwlIy thine, so that we may regard the ring as a lover’s gift. 
We have a discovery of a very different character in a stone 
coffin which was found in the new Pailway Station in the 
month of June. It bears no inscription, but it is the longest 
and the heaviest that we possess, being eight feet in length and 
proportionately thick. The coffin contained the bones of a 
woman laid in gypsum, in close adherence to which were 
portions of the dress in which she had been interred. The 
best of these fragments have been carefully preserved (they 
were shown upon the table), and the coffin is now placed in the 
row of Poman tombs in the Hospitium, the bones and the 
gypsum having been carefully replaced in their original posi¬ 
tions. The top of the coffin is secured by a glass frame. And 
now let me mention a curious circumstance. The holes in the 
stone by which the frame is fastened to the coffin, were drilled 
by a left-handed man, and he remarked that the tool marks 
