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A HISTORY OF LEICESTERSHIRE Mr. Haverfield has given the following expanded reading Imp[eratore] Caes[are], div[i] Traian[i] Parth[ici] f[ilio], d[ivi Nervae] [N]ep[ote Tr]ajan[o] Hadrian[o Augusto patre patriae tribunicia] pot[estate] iv, cons[ule] iii. A. Ratis [rnillia passuum] ii. [Bib. Top. Brit, viii, 723 ; Thompson, Hist. Leic. 5 ; Rollings, Leic. Lit. Soc. 327 ; Nichols, Hist. Leic. i, 5 ; Arch. Journ. xxxi, 353 ; xxxiv, 400 ; Arch, vii, 84 ; Gent. Mag. 1773, p. 16 ; Codrington, Rom. Roads in Brit. 2501 ; MS. Min. Soc. Antiq. xviii, 3.] ' The date given by the Emperor's titles is, of course, the date when the stone was erected, A.D. 120-1.' Mr. Haverfield considered that the stone had been to some extent erroneously recut [Guide to the Leic. Mus. 1899]. TILTON ON THE HILL. There are said to have been some earthworks on Houbank Hill, and two small entrenchments further south. Coins have been found here in considerable quantities. [Nichols, Hist. Leic. i, 330]. TUR LANGTON. A small brass of Arcadius (A.D. 395-408) was found here in 1865 [Leic. Arch. Soc. iii, 15]. WALTHAM ON THE WOLDS. Two stone coffins were found here in 1860 [Leic. Arch. Soc. i, 397]. Dra MANDUESSEDUM WANLIP. It has been stated that the remains of a Roman villa were found at Wanlip, but the only evidence forthcoming is Nichols's reference to many coins of Constantine (A.D. 306-37), with broken urns, a human skull, &c., having been found ' on the other side of the Soar, near Wanlip' [Hist. Leic. i, 4 ; Jewitt, Reliq. xiii, 1 8]. WHETSTONE. During excavations for the railway in 1864 a large quern was found [Leic. Arch. Soc. ii, 312]. WESTCOTES. On the east side of the Fosse Way, near Leicester, traces of a cemetery, containing both Roman and Saxon remains, were found in 1887. Several skeletons, lying nearly north and south, and with them some fibulae^ an armlet, sword-blades, fragments of coarse pottery, two vases of Castor ware, and some coins were preserved. Two of the fibulae were large, brass, of the ' fiddle ' pattern, two were smaller, the same shape, one had traces of enamel and pieces of glass set in it [post, f Anglo-Saxon Remains'], The five brass coins were undecipherable except one of Domitian (A.D. 81-96) [Bellairs, Leic. Arch. Soc. vi, 339]. A fragment of a stone inscribed IS. T. R. A. A. N. was found near the Old House, Westcotes, and is now in the Leicester Museum [Rep. Com. Leic. Mus.]. 2l8