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RECENT ROMAN DISCOVERIES:

Small leaden female bust, 4 inches high, at Worsley Hall. See Croston's engraving, page 11.

A Hercules, "a draped male and two household gods," in possession of Mr. Esdaile, extant.

fibulæ.

Two fibulæ (bronze), one cruciform and one circular, figured in Watkin's Roman Lancashire, page 112.

Silver fibula, found 1849 in Castlefield, figured in Roman Lancashire, page 115 (now in Jos. Mayer's collection, Liverpool).

Roman clasps, found on the east side, 1765–6, according to Whitaker. Lost.

A fibula found in Castlefield In possession of Mr. Farr.
See Trans. of the Lanc. and Chesh. Antiq. Soc., vol. ii., 1884.
An enamelled buckle

A bronze fibula. See Croston, plate xii.

A circular bronze brooch (see Croston, plate xxiii.), inlaid with several stones, 1 inch diameter.

glass.

A "lachrymatory" of black glass on the south side of the station, found 1765–6. Lost.

A similar one, found 1782. Lost.

sundries.

A lump of sal ammoniac, at the entrance of Gaythorn Row, with a coin of Tetricus, 1788. See vol. v., p. 534, 1802, Manch. Lit. and Phil. Soc.

The various finds of pottery need not be regarded.