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4? THE HISTORY Book L lib. I. c* S9*~— 9 Vegetius 1. II. c. vi. and vii. — I0 See b. I. ch. vi. led. 4. — XI B. I. ch. vi. f. 2,-—" Vegetius lib. HI. c. vili. — — 13 Vegetius 1. II. c. xxiii. and Tabernacula vel Cafae 1. II. c. x. and Horfeley p. 152. — ,4 Vegetius 1. II. c. xiii.— ,s Vegetius ib. See alio Grsevius tomx. c. mxjtviii.— ~ 16 Horfeley p. 152. III. THE- topen ground of the Caftle- field, which extended itfelf on three fides around the barriers of the Roman flat ion, mufl have been applied to a great variety of purpofes. Immediately without the vallum, and perhaps along the weflern level, muft have been the ftables of the officers and the flaughter-houfes of the garrifbn And all around the vallum many of the Roman officers and fbldiers appear to have been interred. In the begin- ning of the laft century was difcovered a ftone, which was the fepulchral monument of one of the officers, Candidus Fidefius, a centurion of the garrifbn that died here in his 2 1 ft year It is delineated in the plate, and was infcribed Dis Manibus To the Shade Centurionis Candidi Fidefii Of the Centurion Candidus Fidefms, Annorum 20 Aged 20 years Menfium months. Dierum 4. And 4 days* About feventeen years ago a labourer collecting gravel near the eaftern boundary of the Field* and on the upper edge of the Hope, found an urn ftrongly bedded in the gravel and contain- ing a quantity of bones. This was compofed of fine clay, was neatly glazed both within and without, and, under a flight molding which encompafled the upper part of it, had fome un- meaning circles and fame ill-wrought figures embofied upon it- It had no infeription. But from the appearance of the bones* which, were extremely fmali and even as little as thofe of a. chicken, the contents of the urn could never have belonged to any