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RECENT ROMAN DISCOVERIES:

modern Risingham, and their name also occurs on another stone, now as a lintel over a turret stair at Jedburgh Abbey.

Fortunæ Conservatrici L. Senecianius Martius 3 Leg. vi. Vict., from the site of the hypocaust, now at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

objects of gold.

Golden ring, found by Stukely, 1723, at Castlefield. Lost.

Golden wire, found in the well at the Crown Inn, by Whitaker. Lost.

Massive gold signet ring, having a bloodstone and a figure of Mercury in intaglio, in possession of Chr. Bradbury, Crescent, Salford. Found 1839. Collection sold 1867.

Golden Bulla, found 1772 in the Irwell, near Eccles, was in the Leverian Museum. Lost. Another found at Overborough. These were the only two in Britain.

pewter. Four pewter dishes, found 1808, 12 feet below in clay and sand, when cutting the Rochdale Canal, near the junction with the Bridgewater Canal. In the British Museum. See engraving Croston's Baines's History of Lancashire, page 10. 17¾ inches in diameter.

iron.

Head of an iron axe, found 1829. See Croston's Baines, plate x., page 13.

Two spear heads. See Croston's Baines, plate ix., page 13.

Stylus of iron, 7½ inches long.

beads.

Two glass beads, in possession of Mr. Farr. See Trans. Lanc. and Chesh. Antiq. Soc., vol. ii. 1884.

Blue fluted beads, at Worsley Hall. See Croston's engravings, xxv., page 15.