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APPENDIX.
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many very imperfect fragments in different parts of the ground. The colour of the third is a light brown.

The barrow is about twenty-four yards in diameter at the base."


Remarks on the Ninth Volume of the Archaeologia. Communicated in a
Letter from the Rev.
Thomas Crane to the President.

Read Nov. 16, 1797.

On the Pig of Lead, Vol. IX. p. 45.

The inscription is thus given, p. 46, compared with p. 48.

TI. CL. TR. LVT. BR. EX. ARG.

Mr. Pegge's attempt to explain this line is erroneous. Read thus:

Tiberii Claudii Tributum, lutum Britannico ex Argento.
"The Tribute of Tiberius Claudius, paid out of British Money."


On the Brereton Window, Vol. IX. Pl. 23.

Below the armed figures, the fifth, seventh, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth words, are erroneously copied. The hexameters are not two, but four lines. It is unnecessary to point out minutely the literal errors; if the words had been not abbreviated, the whole inscription would have been thus:

Ricardus