To the Hon'ble S. Gilbert Elliot of Minto Bar This Plate is most humbly Inscribd. Carabrough Fort. T this August Inscription upon it, FORTUNE POPULI ROMANI JULIUS RALTICUS LEGIONIS SEXTA VICTRICIS, which I fhall defcribe in another Place. At this Place of Carabruch, was also dug up an Antiquity, on which is the Figure of a Man, half Length, as big as the Life, ftanding within a Nitch cut out of one large Stone; this I take to be the Figure of fome local Deity, but of very indifferent Sculpture, and feems to be made in the low Empire. As it appears, fee Plate XXXVIII. Fig. II. The rest of the Infcriptions found here, proving the firft Cohort of the Batavi to have been at this Station, are published by Others, fo I forbear mentioning them. Hence the Walls pals through the Town of Caraw, where Hadrian's Vallum is pretty flat; but fomewhat farther Weft, both Walls appear very great, efpecially that of Severus, which has about eight Courses of Stone above one another, facing the Old Wall: The Military Way here is also very confpicuous. From hence the Walls pafs by a House or two called Tipplehall, keeping within 39 Paces of each other; but a little further Weft, they very near touch one another. Beyond that the Walls widen pretty much, and both of them take very different Courfes; for near to this Place begins a large Track of high Mountains, Rocks, and Precipices, at an Old Gothick Caftle, which goes by the Name of Shewenfhele, which Cambden calls Hunnum; though, indeed, I faw no Veftige of a Station there; but it is generally believed, that a strong Garrison was kept hereabout for the Defence of that País. Here the Mountains andRocks begin their long continued Track, over which Severus's Stone Wall runs the whole Way, but Hadrian's keeps on the Declivity and low Ground. The firft Place on thofe Hills, which Severus's Wall paffes by, is near a very small Village called Shewenfhele Houfes, keeping the Edge or Top of the Rocks without having any Foffa, the Precipice ferving inftead of it. I was surprized however to find, that most of the fquare Stones which face the Wall, are hereabout taken away, and likewife beyond it for a confiderable Way. In this manner Severus's Wall, keeping upon the Brink of these hideous Precipices, arrives at a Place called Houfe-Steads, fo named from the Marks of Old Roman Buildings Houfefteads. ftill appearing on that Ground; and it is unquestionably the most remarkable and magnificent Roman Station in the whole Island of Britain; as will appear when I give my Reader, as I fhall now proceed to do, a Defcription of the noble Monuments which are yet remaining to be seen at that Place. 7th Fort at Here are the distinct Vestiges of Streets, which appear to cover above 8 Acres of Ground in one Place. At the Foot of the Hill is a rifing Ground, whercon seem to be the Veftiges of a round Temple, within which are five or fix Altars with Roman Infcriptions: One of them has thefe Letters above the Cornice, JOVI OPTIMO MAXIMO; under that, ET NUMINIBUS AUGUSTI COHORS PRIMA TUNGRORUM MILES CUI PRÆEST QUINTUS VERIUS SUPERSTES PRÆFECTUS; which seems to fignify, "That Quintus Verius Superftes, the Præfect of the first Cohort of the Tungri, erected this Altar to Jupiter Optimus Maximus, and to the Tutelary Deities of the Emperor." This Altar, as I copy'd it on the Spot, fee in Plate XXXIII. Fig. I. On another broken Altar there is this Fragment of an Infcription, viz. - - TRIBUS COH. ĨTUNG. and may be thus read, Matribus Cohors prima Tungrorum. Thefe Matres were often local Deities, and seem to have been worshipped at this Place. See it Plate XXXIII. Fig. II. Next is another very curious Altar, upon one Side of which is a Patera furrounded with a waved Ornament; on the other Side is an Amphora, or Sacrificing Vafe, with the fame kind of waved Ornament, and on the Front of the Stone is this Infcription: ET NUMINIBUS AUGUSTI COHORS PRIMA TUN |