Volume 2

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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    (Contmued). Staffordshire. [1784, Part I.,p. 974.] Ebchester. A Roman altar was lately found at Ebchester, in this neighbour- hood, and is now in my possession. I have endeavoured to explain it, but am not perfectly satisfied with my own reading. I shall be happy to have the opinion of more learned antiquaries; and hope a copy of the inscription will for that purpose be soon admitted into your useful work. See the Plate, fig. 3. The characters of the three first lines are very plain ; the first and last letters of the fourth line less so; and the latter end of the fifth line more defaced. [See Note 20.] PORCUSTUS. Hints. [1772,/. 558-] As some workmen were digging for gravel, last winter, on Hints Common, about three-quarters of a mile north from the Watling Street road, they discovered, at the depth of 4 feet from the surface of the earth, a pig of lead, 150 lb. weight, with an inscription cast in basso relievo, surrounded by a border of an equal height. Through favour of the possessor, Ralph Floyer, Esq., I have been permitted to measure and make an exact drawing of this monument of antiquity, which I have herewith sent you, not doubting of your readiness to oblige your antiquarian readers with a representation of it in your magazine. Richard Green. [1773,/. 61.J We are infinitely obliged to Mr. Floyer for communicating to the public the very ancient block of lead discovered upon Hints