n, and two hoards of gold
coins, now in the British Museum.[1]

[Footnote 1: _Vide_ Official Handbook to Newcastle and District, put
forth on the occasion of the last visit of the British Association to
that city.]

The Map above gives the line of Hadrian's Wall through the two
counties of Northumberland and Cumberland, viz., from Wallsend to
Bowness, and indicates the principal places on the route. For further
details of this absorbing subject the reader is referred to such
works as the Proceedings and Transactions of learned societies, such
as the _Archaeologia Aeleana_, or the _Lapidarium Septentrionale_.
The _Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum_, Vol. vii gives a full rendering
of the inscriptions.

APPENDIX D

"The Society of Antiquaries, in conjunction with the Shropshire
Archaeological Society, carried on extensive excavations at Wroxeter
during the years 1912, 1913, and 1914.

"Wroxeter, the ancient Viroconium or Uriconium, is situated on the
east bank of the Severn, between five and six miles south-east of
Shrewsbury. The lines of its walls can still be traced, enclosing an
area of about 170 acres, and the town must have been an important
centre in Roman-Britain, as it stood at the junction of two of the
main roads, viz., the Watling Street from London and the south-east,
and the road from the legionary fortress of Caerleon in South Wales.
There were also other roads running from it into Wales and to
Chester. The town is referred to by the Ravenna Geographer as
Viroconium Cornoviorum, and was probably the chief town of that tribe
which inhabited a district including both Wroxeter and Chester.

"That the site was inhabited soon after the invasion under Claudius
in 43 A.D. is evident. Coins and other objects of pre-Flavian date
have been met with in some quantities, and there are tombstones of
soldiers of the XIV Legion from the cemetery. This legion came over
with Claudius, and left Britain for good in the year 70 A.D.
Wroxeter, situated on the edge of the Welsh hills and protected from
attack on that side by the river Severn, would have formed an
admirable base for operations against the turbulent tribes of Wales,
and it is more than likely that it was used as such in the campaigns
undertaken by Ostorius Scapula in 50 A.D. and by Suetonius Paulinus
in 60 A.D.

"The Welsh tribes were finally subdued before the end of the reign of
Vespasian, and the country became more settled. Wroxeter appears to
h