The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . ,the site of the third station on the wall, seems to leave little room fordoubt that this fanciful hybrid of the goat and seal was also employedas the emblematical symbol of Caledonia, and may have been adoptedby the Second Legion to commemorate their victories over the hardyrace whom it not inaptly symbolized. It is a tablet recording withless abbreviation than usual the completion of 4666 paces of the wallby the Second Legion, Augusta: IMP • CAES • TITO ? AELIO •HADRUNO • ANTONINO •AVG • PIO • P • P • LEG • IIAVG • PER MP- nil • DCLXVI • S
The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . ,the site of the third station on the wall, seems to leave little room fordoubt that this fanciful hybrid of the goat and seal was also employedas the emblematical symbol of Caledonia, and may have been adoptedby the Second Legion to commemorate their victories over the hardyrace whom it not inaptly symbolized. It is a tablet recording withless abbreviation than usual the completion of 4666 paces of the wallby the Second Legion, Augusta: IMP • CAES • TITO ? AELIO •HADRUNO • ANTONINO •AVG • PIO • P • P • LEG • IIAVG • PER MP- nil • DCLXVI • S On one side of this inscription appears a literal representation ofimperial triumph:—captives stripped and bound, above them amounted Roman armed and in full career, and over all a femalefigure, supposed to bear a wreath emblematic of Victory. On the otherside is the Roman eagle perched on the prostrate sea-goat, the mani-fest counterpart of tlie litoral exhibition of the conquered Caledonians. THE ROMAN INVASION. n75. The origin of the singular emblem, however, is still open to may be doubted if it was a Roman emblematic device, thoughfamiliar to them as the most usual form ofCapricornus, for the imperial conquerorsmore generally adopted the most characteris-tic literal representations of the occurs on a rare coin figured by Gough,and now ascribed to Comius, about -io ;but it may also be seen as the zodiacal sign, on a very remarkablecalendar cut in marble, which was found in a ruined villa of Roman fort at Castlehill, where the above tablet was dug up,was one of the inferior class ; its small dimensions arising, in jmrt atleast, perhaps, from the natural advantages of its position. The dis-coveries on its site, liowever, are jjossessed of greater interest thanthose yet known belonging to some of the largest stations on thewall. In the year 1826, a votive altar was brought to light on thesame locality, ded
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