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$6 Vtffi HISTORY fiookl. gate of the camp.- Thence certainly it had been thrown down the rocky bank of the river into the channel below. Luckily it fell into a foft part of the channel, and was not broken by the fall. And there tt toy undiftturbed and unknown for many ages, the lettered fide lying upon the ground, and an oak Spread- ing out its roots iiboVe it. In that Situation was it found in the year i6f 2 ,r . The ftone is twenty-feven inches and a quarter in, length, fifteen and a quarter in breadth, and nearly eleven in fchicknefs ; and, what is a full argument of the hafte with which it was originally formed, and remarkably coincides with the luppofition concerning its date before, it has neither capital nor bale, and only a large pline in front bordered oh either fide by a molding. It is charged With a Common praefericulum on the left edge and with a Common p&tera On the right. And it is now carefully preferred by the worthy and learned George Lloyd Efqj in th6 neighbouring hall of Hulme.

  • Gtevfrg tom. k. c« 1644. ootftpared with Vegetius lib. iiL

c 8i-u*-* Gnfcvius t. 1044.-"* Dt Sttikeley has converted this altar into two, Itin. Cur. p. IS*** 4 Oak' 9 Antonine p. 47.—*

  • Horfeley Scotland No* 4. and p. 79.— -• Se* b.I. ch. v. fed. 4-

■* Horfeley Scotland Fig. *> $> 16* 25, and 26.-^ Horfeley Scot- land Fig. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. — 9 Horfeley Scdtland Fig. 2 and 25. atid Northumberland Fig. 7. See alfo the Imperial Infcriptions in Grtiter and Reiftefius.— tp Hoffeley p. 189. and plate No. r. p. 1 89.—" See Horfeley Northumberland No. 7 1 . — x * See Urfatus* Where it atfb appears in its liattiral pofition. — u PhiL Tranf. 1763. ^134. and Horfeley Northumberland Fig. 32. p. 240* and Cumberland Fig. 68. See alfo a bath or an altar in it de- dicated to Fortune ih Yorkffiire (Horfeley Fig, 1. and p-352). —

    • See fc. I. ch. iv. feft. 3. — ,s Horfeley Northumberlandf Fig. 55

and 78. — - ,6 Horfeley Northumberland Fig. 32, p. 218, and Oifordfhire Fig, 1. p. 537.— - 17 See Mr. Hollingworth's MS. p. 3, V. MANY