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A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE lands. On the other hand, the inscriptions of Verus occur in those lands, and they may well belong to measures of coercion carried out against the restless hillmen. 1 (2) Square block, 20 inches high and 12 inches square. On the front is carved rudely in low relief a wreath or garland with tassels which encloses an inscription of four lines, the second and third almost illegible. Found in the vault, 1903 ; now in Buxton Museum : DEAE L . . 01 . CIE IKE vie/ VSLLM Possibly /eg (to) xx. va/(eria) vic(trix) may have formed the third line, but the letters are too uncertain to admit guessing. (3) Two other altars, now at Buxton, were perhaps once inscribed. The larger, 28 inches high, with a panel for lettering 10 by 16 inches in size, may have had six lines of inscription, but nothing can now be deciphered. It stood for many years exposed to the weather in the village of Hope, near Brough. The other, the upper half of a smaller altar, found among the debris in the vault in 1903, has been thought to bear two brief lines, DEO | MARTI, but they are indistinguishable to my eye. (4) Many tiles found long ago in the building which I take to be the bath-house seem to have been inscribed. Pegge gives a sketch of a broken one on which only the letters COH survive. Bray gives OH and C, both imperfect, and CH, which he says was perfect, and adds that specimens were in the collection of John Wilson of Broomhead Hall. The Buxton Museum contains a broken tile with the incised letter C but the continuation broken off. Presumably these tiles when perfect read Coh(ors) i Aquit(anorum)^ or the name of any other regiment which was in garrison at Brough when they were manufactured. 2 (5) Only one potter's stamp has been recorded. This was on the rim of an urn found in the eighteenth century and acquired by Mr. John Wilson. As reproduced by Bray it is and probably formed the stamp of a pelvis or mortarium (Bray, p. 211). The architectural fragments are of less interest. The bases, plinths, and similar pieces figured by Bray and others, or now visible at Brough or in the Buxton Museum, show the heavy plainness of military work, 1 See my remarks in Archaeohgia Aeliana, xxv. 142, Free. Sot. Antij. Scotland, xxxviii. 454, and Derb. Arch. Journ. xxvi. 3 Pegge, Roads through the Coritani, p. 40. Bray, pp. 210, 211. 208