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II. Inscriptions1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2023

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When measurements are quoted the width precedes the height.

References

2 Mr. F. Higenbottam kindly sent the fragment for drawing.

3 Dr. T. R. Thomson kindly sent details and the Hon. Curator, Miss A. C. Dowden, of Cricklade Museum supplied a squeeze.

4 The present writer has drawn the inscription.

5 Kirk, Joan R., Oxoniensia XIV (1949), 45 Google Scholar, with a drawing of A in fig. 9, no. 11. (a) and (b) were acquired in 1935, (c) and (d) are on loan in the Wyndham Hughes collection.

6 Now in the Ashmolean Museum; excavated in 1952 by Mr. R. G. Goodchild and Miss J. R. Kirk, the latter of whom kindly provided details.

7 Ant. Jour. XXXII (1952), 185 Google Scholar, pl. XXXII.

8 JRS II (1912), 210 Google Scholar.

9 CIL V, 8750, 8988c.

10 Stevens, C. E. (Arch. Jour. XCVII (1941), 151 Google Scholar) shows that a magister militum ranked too high to be placed on the inscription in a position secondary to the praepositus.

11 CIL VIII 22774; Inscr. Rom. Trip. 876.

12 See drawing by Collingwood in Archaeology of Roman Britain 171, fig. 44b. The stone itself now shows no trace of the horizontal bars of an E, but there is enough space in which such a letter may have been cut, and later flaked away.

13 Mr. A. Barton, of Newburn Garage, kindly gave details of this stone to the present writer, who has subsequently seen it.

14 Northd. County Hist. XIII, 563, for milecastle 9; CIL VII, 536, for several seen by Horsley near Wallbottle. X is the highest number previously recorded in this sector; at Chesterholm a series of numerals reaching XIIII was cut on the voussoirs of a vault in the bath-house west of the fort ( Hunter, , Phil. Trans. XXIII (1702), 1131 Google Scholar).

15 Mr. J. P. Gillam kindly submitted the fragment for study.

16 CIL VII, 706.

17 Mr. R. W. P. Cockerton kindly sent details, a photograph, and an impression of the incisions.

18 Kisa, Glas im Altertume 948, no. 80. Mr. L. P. Wenham kindly sent details and Dr. D. B. Harden's report and submitted the bottle for examination.

19 Now in Warrington Museum, where Mr. W. C. Sprunt kindly provided details of provenance.

20 In Warrington Museum; Lancs. Chesh. Hist. Soc. Trans. XLVIII, 15, pl. 2.

21 Professor I. A. Richmond kindly submitted them for examination. The roundel is decorated on both faces and perforated and seems to be a spindle-whorl.

22 Bruce, Lap. Sept. p. 391.

23 Mr. R. Hogg kindly gave details.

24 Now in the Yorkshire Museum, York, where the Keeper, Mr. G. F. Willmot, kindly gave details of his excavation.

25 The finders of the tile without authority removed it and broke it; Mr. D. J Nicholls recovered most of the fragments. Mr. G. C. Boon, of Reading Museum, kindly sent full details and a photograph and the tile is now in the Museum. See Oxoniensia XVI (forthcoming).

26 The cognomen Datius occurs on the tombstone of L. Fulvius Datius, an under-pilot from Misenum (ILS 2864, CIL X, 3483), on a tombstone at Plasencia, in Spain, set up by Datius, L. Aelius (CIL II, 830 Google Scholar), and on the ware of a Rheinzabern potter (Oswald, Stamps on T.S.).

27 Mr. F. Harris kindly sent it for drawing and has presented it to the Royal Museum, Canterbury.

28 Mr. D. T. D. Clarke kindly gave details.

29 Mr. F. Higenbottam kindly sent it for examination.

30 Mr. R. Hogg kindly pointed it out.

31 Mr. L. P. Wenham kindly submitted it for examination

32 Mr. F. Jenkins kindly sent it for drawing.

33 Mr. and Mrs. K. Watson, of Stanwix, who excavated the urn, kindly sent it for examination.

34 CIL XIII, 9097.

35 Mr. F. Jenkins kindly sent full details and the sherds for examination.

36 Ant. Jour. XXXII (1952), 198 Google Scholar, fig. 1.

37 Novus thesaurus veterum inscriptionum III, p. 1787, no. 2; CIL VI, 21918.

38 Lap. Sept. no. 324.

39 CIL VII, 799.

40 Part of the carved left-hand bolster, 5 by 7½ in., from the capital of this altar was found in February, 1953, by Mr. Marwood in the Eller Beck, a mile below the site of the shrine.