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 NOTICE OF INSCRIPTIONS AND A NTH iI'ITI P.S. 157 use of imposts, the well-executed tenons and mortices, and the worked surfaces of the uprights, all seem to point to a later age, and a more advanced civilisation. I think there- fore we may fairly conclude, that 8tonehenge is of later date than Avebury and the other structures of unwrought stone ; that it could not have been built much later than the year 100, B.C., and in all probability was not built more than a century or two earlier. As to the antiquity of Avebury, I dare offer no conjecture. If the reader be more venture- some, and should fix its erection some eight or ten centuries before our era, it w^ould be difficult to advance any critical reasons against his hypothesis. Notice to the Reader. — Portions of the map which is attached to this paper are coloured yellow. They are intended to represent the dis- trict, that were retained by the Britons after the conclusion of the treaty of the Mons Badonicus, a.d. 520. The boundary lines, which, in certain localities, mark out the frontier, are supposed to have been constructed — or, it may be, in some cases, adopted — by the Britons upon that occasion. NOTICE OF INSCRIPTIONS AND ANTIQUITIES, DISCOVERED AT CAERLEON. COMMUNICATED BY JOHN EDWAr.D LEE, ESQ. XuMEROUS are the vestiges of interest, connected wath the history of Roman occupation in the ancient district of the Siliires, which have repaid the researches of archaeologists in that part of the kingdom. Some of the discoveries recently made at Caerleon are not unknown to the readers of the Journal, wdiose attention may have been invited to the memorials of the antiquities and of an extensive villa there brought to light, noticed in previous volumes.^ The publica- tions to which we refer will show the variety of these remains, and especially the value of the accession to the history of Roman times in Britain, as illustrated by inscribed monu- ments, derived from investigations of late years at Isca Silurum. Upw^ards of tw^enty inedited inscriptions have ' See Notices of " Roman Antiquities entitled, — " Description of a Roman found at Caerleon," by John Edward building discovered at Caerleon."— Arch. Lee, Esq., 1848, and of his recent work, Journal, vol. ii. p. 417 ; vol. vii. p. 97. VOL. VIII. y