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been long preferved in his houfe and gardens, engraved by Camden, Mr. Horfely, andMr. Gordon ; and permitted one of my fervants to make drawings of others that hadbeen difcovered fince.

Among the latter is the altar found in the rubbifh of a quarry, which feemed. to havebeen worked by the Romans in a very extenfive manner: it has no infcription, andappears to have been left unfirjifhed ; perhaps the workmen were prevented from exe-cuting the whole by the upper part of the hill flipping down over the lower ; a circum-ftance that Hill frequently happens in quarries worked beneath the cliffs. On one fideof the altar is a bToad dagger, on another a patera.

A fragment of ftone, with a boar rudely carved, and the letters orb.

A large wooden pin, with a curious polygonal head. One-fimilar to this, but madeof brafs, was difcovered, with other trinkets, in a tomb near Choifi in France . CountCaylus calls it a mace, and thinks by the little ax that accompanied it, that the perfoninterred was a child defigned for the military life, and that thefe were fymbolical proofs *.

The fpout of a brazen veffel. Mr. Senhoufealfo favoured me with the fight of fomethin gold plate, found in the fame place; and fhewed me, near his houfe, in Hall-clofe,an intrenchment of a re&angular form, forty-five yards by thirty-five: probably thedefence of fome ancient manfion, fo neceffary in this border county.

It gave me great pleafure to review the fculptures engraven in Mr. Horfeley’s anti-quities, and preferved in the walls of this place. The following were fixed in the wallsof the houfe, by the anceftor of Mr. Senhoufe, coeval with Camden. On No. 65, analtar, appears Hercules with his club, and in one hand the Hefperian apples that he hadconveyed

ab infomni male cuftodita dracone.

What is lingular, is an upright conic bonnet on his head, of the fame kind with that inwhich the goddefs, on whom he beftowed the fruit, is dreffed f. On another fide ofthe altar is a man armed with a helmet and cloathed with a fagum claufum, or clofed frock,reaching only to his knees. In one hand is a thick pole ; the other refting on a wheel,probably denoting his having fucceeded in opening fome great road.

In No. 70, are feen the two victories fupporting a triumphal crown, the Victoriaaugufti.

The local goddefs Setlocenia, with long flowing hair, with a veffel in her hand, fillsthe front of one ftone; and an altar inferibed to her is lodged in on,e of the gardenwalls.

No. 74 is, near the goddefs, a moft rude figure of a cavalier on his fteed.

In the fame wall with her altar is No. 64, a monumental mutilated infcription, fup-pofed in honour of Antoninus Pius .

No. 71, the next monument, notes the premature death of Julia Mamertina, at theage of twenty years and three months. A rude head expreffes the lady, and a fettingfun the funereal fubje£L

A female expreffmg modefty with one hand ; the other lifted to her head, ftandsbeneath an arch, as if about to bathe, and is marked in Horfely, No. 73.

In a garden houfe is No. 62, an altar to Jupiter, by the firft cohort of the Spanifh,whofe tribune was Marcus Menius Agrippa.

Another, No. 66, to Mars Militaris, devoted by the firft cohort of theBelgic Gauls,commanded by Julius Tutor.

* Recueil d’Antiq i. J9

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t Montfaucon, Antlq i. tab. civ. f. 7.

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