Camden's Britannia, edn 1789

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	Page 185:- The next inscribed to Belatucader is lost. An optio was a deputy to a Centurion or other officer [e]. We have this deity again in Horsley, Cumb. XXXI. Westm. III. and Archaeol. I. 308. III. 101. The 4th inscription is in the hall wall [f]. Horsely takes the figure on the right side to represent Hercules leaning on his club and holding the Hesperian apples, which Gordon makes a patera. Stukeley changes the club into an altar and a patera held in the right hand of a figure much more delicate than Hercules. On the left side is Mars with his spear in his right hand, in his left his shield [g]. The next inscription is Horsley's Cumb. LXIV. Gordon's XLIV. Horsley inclines to refer it to Caracalla or Commodus, rather than to Antoninus Pius as Gordon. The four next are now lost. The word substituerunt in the seond seems to mean that the monument being erected by Morus Rex in his life-time and decaying was replaced by his heirs [h].
Pl.IX. fig.2
	The monument of Julia Martina, drawn by Gordon [i], exhibits her bust rudely cut over the inscription, which is also rude [k]. The next with the wreath supported by two Victories, is by Horsley referred to the emperors Dioclesian and Maximian [l].
Pl.IX. fig.3
	Since Mr. Camden's time the following have been found here. Horsley's LXI. an altar given to Mr. Kirkby of Ashleck, Lancashire, and by his son presented to me.
Pl.IX. fig.3 Pl.IX. fig.4 Pl.IX. fig.5 Pl.IX. fig.6,7,8
	Another, LXII. supporting a sun-dial in Elenboro' garden. Another, LXIII. given to the bishop of Man's library in that island, whence the Society of Antiquaries had a copy of it in 1782. Another LXVI was over a door at Elenfoot. Another LXVII. LXIX. an altar to the local goddess Setlocenia or Seticenia in the garden wall [m]. A fragment of an epitaph [n]. IL SER QUI ANAT CALAPIADO BVIT CAIA XIT ANN MORII VI DESIDE RISINT NONVA. LXII. a relief of a female with an urn [o]. Mr. Pennant takes it for the goddess Setlocenia. LXXIII. a relief of a woman in a bath [p]. LXXIV. a relief of an equestrian figure [q]. Here have been since found a fragment of stone with a rude boar and ORD, perhaps part of the name of Gordian; an altar uninscribed, but having on one side an ax and knife: another unfinished found in a quarry with a knife and patera on two sides, probably waiting for a purchaser to inscribe and dedicate it; a relief of a figure in a sagum, holding in one hand a handled vessel like a bucket under a pediment, engraved by Mr. Pennant, pl.III. p.53.56. but the habit or attribute not easy to make out, nor why a Gaul [r]; a large wooden pin with a curious polygonal head [s], a brazen spout, and some thin gold plates. Near the house in Hall close is an intrenchment 45 yards by 35, perhaps the site of a mansion-house. Mr. Senhouse clearing the station 1766, found the pavements of the streets, foundations of houses, some of them covered with a pink coloured plaister, several vaults, one with freestone steps much used; fire hearths with circular backs with remains both of wood and coal, bones and teeth of animals, stag's horns, many of them sawed, oyster and other shells; fragments of earthen vessels, and a handle inscribed AEL; fragments of glass vessels and mirrors, and two pieces of a painted glass cup [t]. In the vault before-mentioned, supposed to be within the length of the praetorium, 12 feet by 10½, which had been opened before and the pavement taken up, were found a thin piece of beaten gold, a brass ring, stag's horns, a rude relief of three female figures sitting in three niches about a foot high; a piece of stone with a few letters; another with a wheel of six spokes, six inches diameter. This might have been a temple of the Deae Matres, represented in relief. They found among the foundations slates with holes and iron nails in them [u]. The camp is formed on th edge of a high bank overhanging the sea: and about 63 paces south-west from it is a tumulus 250 in circumference, 42 feet slope, and 14 feet perpendicular, called the King's burying place. Mr. Senhouse opened it 1763, but found under different strata of soil (not of stones, as Mr. Gordon), only some bones of an ox [x]. Mr. Horlsey [y] and Mr. Gordon place OLENACVM here on the river Elen; elsewhere [z] the former had placed it at Virosidum. Mr. Camden has little authority for calling it Volantium.
Pl.IX fig.4.6.8.
	Horlsey's LXII. LXVI. LXVII. are now in a summer-house. A gold coin of Nero was found at Elenborough about two years ago, on the sea shore within flood mark. NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS Rev. an emperor and empress, AVGVSTVS AVGVSTA [a].
Dereham.
Dearham
	The church of Dereham was given by Alice de Romely, widow, to Giseburn abbey. In one of the windows is an inscription, communicated by Mr. G. Smith to the Gentleman's Magazine, XXI. 112, where it was explained by Mr. Pegge, 255, to mean Has fenestras Galfridus Gudng reparavit Anno Domini MCL [b].
Elne r.
	Near the head of the river Elne Randulp de Engaine chief forester of Englewood permitted the prior of Carlisle to build an hospital for relief of distressed travellers who might happen to be troubled by thieves or prejudiced by snow and storms in winter. After the hospital was built a church was erected [c].
Moricambe.
	Of Moricambe see before in Lancashire, where it is settled at Cartmel, the aestuary in the north part of that county into which the rivers from Kendal and Ambleside empty themselves [d].
Holme Cultrain.
Holme Coultram Abbey
	"Holme Cultrayne abbay of white monkes [e]," or Cistercians, founded by David, king of Scots, or his son Henry, valued at £.427 [f]." Though not a
	[e] Horsl. 268. 283.
	[f] Horsl. Cumb. LXV. 280. Stuk. II. 48. Pl.73. Gruter CXIV. 1. Gordon XLIV.
	[g] not as Mr. Pennant, p.53, a high pile and a wheel, probably denoting the having succeeded in opening some great road.
	[h] Ward in Horsley, 284,285.
	[i] XLV. 2. p.99.
	[k] Horsl. 284. Cumb. lxxi.
	[l] Cumb. lxx. 283. Stuk.
	[m] Stuk. II. pl.73.
	[n] Gord. xlv. 3. p.99. Horsl. 284.
	[o] Gord. p.100. Stuk. Ib. Horsl. lxxii. Pennant, p.53,54.
	[p] Stuk. Ib.
	[q] Stuk. II. 49. Horsl. 285. Pen. 53,54.
	[r] The supposed Gaul may be parallelled with two reliefs of Roman soldiers in Horsley's Scotland, XI, and Yorkshire, VIII. p.169. and 308.
	[s] See such an one at Chesterton, Huntingdonshire, Vol.II. p.163.
	[t] Pennant, ib.
	[u] Archaeol. II. 58.
	[x] Archaeol. II. 54. Mr. Burn II. 112. says the late Humphry Senhouse, esq; opened it 1742.
	[y] P.481.
	[z] P.113.
	[a] Reliq. Gal. p.447. See Occo, p.89, where such a coin is given in silver,
	[b] Burn, II. 111.113
	[c] Ib. II. 134.
	[d] Horsl. 372.
	[e2] Lel. VII. 71.
	[f2] Tan. 76.
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