. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . )lacc it; but with the help of the accountsgiven in the Annals on the events which took place somewhatlater, at the time of the second legate of the Province, nine yeaisafter the concpiest,^ we are able to draw the following conclusionsfrom the monuments which are still preserved. Immetliately afterthe landing, after the places on tlie coast had been occupied andalliances concluded with some of the nati\e princes, A. Plautius,the first legato of the Pro\ince ( 43, 44), seems to haveconcentrated his army in Vcnta Bel
. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . )lacc it; but with the help of the accountsgiven in the Annals on the events which took place somewhatlater, at the time of the second legate of the Province, nine yeaisafter the concpiest,^ we are able to draw the following conclusionsfrom the monuments which are still preserved. Immetliately afterthe landing, after the places on tlie coast had been occupied andalliances concluded with some of the nati\e princes, A. Plautius,the first legato of the Pro\ince ( 43, 44), seems to haveconcentrated his army in Vcnta Belgaruiu (Winchester) about the Vide PvhciniBcho IMusoum fur Ihilologic, 1857, p. Notes on the Foundation of Glevum. 211 centre of the southern part of the peninsuhi. Only one stonewith an inscription has been found, up till now, in this spot( vii., 5); it belongs, probably, to the end of the first, or,the latest, to the beginning of the second century. The inscription is :— MATRIB(US) ITA(LI)S GERMANIS GAL(LIS) BRIT(ANNIS)[A]NTONIUS [LUJCRETIANUS [B(ENE)]F(ICIARIUS)CO(N)S(ULARIS) REST(ITUIT) i This is a consecration offered in days of old to the Italian,Germanic, Gallic, and Britannic Mothers, the sacred protectressesof those nationalities which furnished recruits to the four legionsof the army of occupation, to the II. Augustan, the XIV. Gemina,the IX. Hispana, and the XX. Valeria Victrix, and to theirnative allies. This inscription was restored by a beneficiary ofthe consular legate of the province, who may have had his officethere in the 2nd century. The Roman Eoads which are still inexistence, and the position of the Eoman settlements, explain thefuith
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