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ROMAN MANCHESTER RE-STUDIED.
87

General List of Former Finds Lost, or Yet in Existence.

Centurial Stones.—Coh. I. Fris. Quintiani, found 1796 at the east gate, size 15 inches by 11 inches, formerly in the possession of Dr. Chs. White (+ 1813), lost. Cast in Peel Park. See Barritt's original drawing, vol. v., Manch. Lit. and Phil. Soc., 1802, plate vii.

Centuria Candidi, seen by Camden, 1607, in situ, lost. "I saw this inscription on a long stone there."

Coh. I. Fris. Mas. Seen by Dr. Dee, in situ, lost. "John Dee had a sight of the same here."

Coh. I. Fris..... found 1760 in Hulme, lost.

Stamped Tiles.c . iii . b r ., found 1832, at Castlefield, by Howarth. Lost. In the tabula[1] of the reign of Antoninus Pius found at Cilurnum the name of the third cohort of the Bracaræ occurs as Coh. III. Brac. Another was found 1840, also lost.

l xx, found 1829, was taken to Worsley Old Hall, but lost on removal to the New Hall. Was in raised letters, according to Harland, who saw it.

Fragment of Inscription.(G)eta. Worsley Old Hall. Lost.

Altars.—Præp . . Vex. Ræt . et Noric . at Worsley New Hall. Still extant.

The Vex. of the Raetii and Noric was stationed probably at Æsica on the Roman Wall in the reign of Marcus Aurelius (161–180), a shattered stone having been found there (Thompson Watkin), naming the Rætii. The Rætians also served in the second Tungian Cohort at Birrens. Rætian spearsmen also served at Habitancium, the


  1. Date fixed to a.d. 146, see Roman Britain, by H. M. Scarth.