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Nantonius * Orbiotalis V. s. l. m., or lastly, by a transposition of 
the fourth line, to follow the first, as suggested by Mr. C. Roach 
Smith, Matribus * Orbis • totalis • Marcus Nantonius v. s. l. m. 
Mr. Procter then read a paper on the result of the examination of 
a tumulus lately opened at Sowerby, near Thirsk. The investigation 
was begun by Lady Frankland Russell, and continued by the York¬ 
shire Antiquarian Club. The tumulus is 140 yards in circumference 
and 18 feet high. Three male skeletons were found in it, laid E. and 
W., but two of them with their heads to the E. and one to the W. 
There were discovered also masses of calcined bones, fragments of 
Roman pottery, three Roman coins of a late age and a small fragment 
of Samian ware. Near one of the skeletons was found the boss of a 
shield of the ordinary Saxon character, seven inches across, composed 
of iron, the brass rivets still remaining by which it had been attached 
to the wood. The head of a spear, seven inches in length, lay by the 
side of this skeleton, and the remains of a knife or dagger of iron 
across the hip of the second. Portions of broken urns were found 
