Volume 1

The gentleman's magazine library : being a classified collection of the chief contents of The gentleman's magazine from 1731 to 1868. Romano-British remains / edited by George Laurence Gomme.

Date:
1887
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Credit: The gentleman's magazine library : being a classified collection of the chief contents of The gentleman's magazine from 1731 to 1868. Romano-British remains / edited by George Laurence Gomme. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    strengthened with towers where the wall from its extent required such additions. “ In the station at Bowes, which has been a very fine one, all the stones have been removed, either for the purpose of building the fine Norman keep, or else, subsequently, for building the houses of the town ; thus we can only trace the earthen embankment on which the wall was built, and in the same manner at Greta Bridge, where the foundation-stones of the walls alone are perceptible; but on Stane- more you have the wall perfect to five courses of masonry. Surely where stone is so plentiful, as on the moor, there can be no necessity for destroying a relique to which such associations attach, and which still remains a monument of the iron grasp which the masters of the world held upon this island; while I think I may say their roads testify the pains they took to civilize and to benefit the regions they conquered. “H. M. Scarth, M.A.” Stanhope. [1839, Part II., p. 408.] I beg to forward, for the amusement of your antiquarian readers, some account of a Roman inscription noticed in your magazine just ninety years since in the present month. Very little notice has been taken of it. The altar that bears it is still at the Rectory House, Stanhope, and quite legible, as may be seen from the following copy of it communicated to me by the Rev. W. N. Darnell, D.D., Rector of that parish. There is also a copy of the inscription by Dr. Taylor, in the “Philosophical Transactions,” No. 486, p. 173; and.Gough says that Mr. Drake communicated it to the Society of Antiquaries in 1751, with some variations of no consequence. From the immense quantities of the tusks and the bones of boars about the Roman stations, on and near the barriers of Hadrian, it is plain that they had been exceedingly abundant in the Roman age. [Huebner, p. 95.] 1 SILVANO INVICTO SACRUM 2 C. TETIVS VETVRIVS M[I]CIA3NVS prae alae sebosian4nae OB aprvm eximiae »formae captvm QVEM 6MVLTI aNTECESS7ORES eivs praedari 8non pot- VERVNT •VS'L,P‘—Silvano invicto sacrum Caius Tetius Vcturius Macianus, pnefectus aim Sebosiannm, ob aprum eximim formoe captum quem multi anteces- sores ejus prcedari non potuerunt voto suscepto libenter posuit. Essex. Bartlow Hills. [1832, Part I., p. 162.] John Gage, Esq., Director of the Society of Antiquaries, with per- mission of Viscount Maynard, in January last opened the line of smaller barrows at the Bartlow Hills, on the borders of Essex and Cambridgeshire, and found some remarkable Roman antiquities in
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