An account of the mining districts of Alston Moor, Weardale and Teesdale in Cumberland and Durham : comprising descriptive sketches of the scenery, antiquities, geology, and mining operations, in the upper dales of the rivers Tyne, Wear, and Tees . ins of a Roman viidden-stead, which, strange as it may appear, has furnishedmany loads of excellent manure to the neighbouringfields, and been hitheilo the productive mine of seve-ral interesting curiosities. The history of the station is obscure. Mr. Horsleysupposed it to be Alione garrisoned by the third cohortof the Nervii, but this opinion has b
An account of the mining districts of Alston Moor, Weardale and Teesdale in Cumberland and Durham : comprising descriptive sketches of the scenery, antiquities, geology, and mining operations, in the upper dales of the rivers Tyne, Wear, and Tees . ins of a Roman viidden-stead, which, strange as it may appear, has furnishedmany loads of excellent manure to the neighbouringfields, and been hitheilo the productive mine of seve-ral interesting curiosities. The history of the station is obscure. Mr. Horsleysupposed it to be Alione garrisoned by the third cohortof the Nervii, but this opinion has been refuted, saysMr. Hodgson, by subsequent discoveries. Its formerimportance is however fully testified, as well by itsextensive works as by the inscriptions and other vesti-ges of antiquity which have been found. Several ofthese are said to have been removed from the stationabout a century ago, and taken by Sir Thomas Robin-son to his seat at Rookby in Huntingdonshire. Amongthose that have been subsequently discovered, may beenumerated— An altar found about twenty-five years ago in thecemetery, a few yards from the north-east corner ofthe station, with the following inscription:— DEO HERCVLI C. VITELLIVS ATTICIANVS C. LEG. VI V. P. The inscription on this altar may be read as follows:— ROMAN INSCRIPTIONS. 37 DEO HERCULI CAIUS VITELLIUS ATTICIANUS CENTURIO LEGIONIS SEXT^ VICTRICIS PONENS FECIT, Or, SEXTiE VOTUM PERFICIENS FECIT. Signifying that this altar was erected to the GodHercules, by Caius Vitellius Atticianus. On the right-hand corner of the inscription side ofthe altar, a serpent is represented coiled round a tree,and attacked by a rude figure intended to representHercules with a club, which is cut on the adjoiningside of the altar. On the other side is a similar figurerepresenting the same deity strangling a serpent ineach hand. It was found fixed in a pedestal. On thetop is a square hole, in which it is probable a statue ofHercules was fixed, as the head, a
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