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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
I Have taken the liberty of troubling your Lordship with an account of some Roman antiquities I met with, last summer, in Cumberland; when I had the honour of being at Rose Castle. The Gentleman who permitted me to take drawings of these assured me that they had never hitherto been taken notice of. I shall, therefore, beg your Lordship will do me the honour to lay the memoir before the Society, should you think it worthy of their notice.
page 220 note [a] Brit. Rom. B. I. p. III.
page 221 note [b] The Cinctus Gabinus was nothing else but when the lappet of the gown, which used to be brought up to the left shoulder, being drawn thence, was cast off in such a manner upon the back as to come round short to the breast, and there fasten in a knot, which knot or cincture tucked up the gown, and made it shorter and straighter. Kennet, Rom. Ant. B. p. 241.
page 223 note [c] These works are all laid down from the same scale.
page 223 note [d] This name is more usually given to those Castella that are regularly placed on Severus's wall.
page 224 note [e] I do not find that these camps have any where been noticed.
page 225 note [g] See Archæol. vol. VII. p. 19.
page 225 note [h] Its length on the top 5 feet 10 inches, width 2 feet 4 inches.
page 225 note [i] Specimens of which I have sent for the inspection of the Society.
page 226 note [k] History of Westmoreland and Cumberland, vol. I. p. 149.
page 226 note [l] Kennet, Rom. Ant. part II. p. 118.