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here is the late discovery of a Roman pottery, at Quarmoor, near
Lancaster. That these works have been very considerable may be
supposed from the space discoloured with broken ware, the holes
from whence the clay has been taken, and the great variety of
bricks, tiles, and vessels that are found about them. But the
greatest discovery is gathered from a tile with turned-up edges,
impressed on each end with the words Ale Sebusia, which points
out a wing of cavalry not heard of before. The same inscription
is found on bricks, the label smaller, and the letters Ala
Subasia. The shape of the second letter in the first word is like
that in the inscription on the rock near Brampton, in Cumberland,
supposed to have been cut in the time of the Emperor Severus,
A.D. 207, and is the fifth L in Horsley's Alphabet. On the brick
the letters are square, from which it may be inferred that this
wing was long stationed at Lancaster.
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