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 ■■Hi • ; t n t r K ££ -T'O RY Book f. The town was ^gnftrufted very near to the ftation and along the courfe of the road from Broughton, in Banks's Croft, Scafe- Croft, and fome adjoining clofes. There fragments of bricks re- markably red have been frequently dug up, and there the foun- dations of houies remain very viftble at preient. No new inferip- tions have been lately discovered. Bat many old inferiptions have in all probability been buried within, the walls of the preient church. A ftone appearsv a&uatty built up in the fouth-eafrerit ^corner of the building, and exhibits an inscription once' copied by Camden and by Horfeley, but now abfolutely illegible-, upon* the outer plane of it **. And on the northern fide of the bel- frey within is a couple of (tones, one of which was certainly a Roman altar, 4 patera appearing embofled upon, the ee{ge of thfc ftone, and the other is charged with a womaji wearing a iargtf peaked bonnet on her head, and grafpihg a fnake in : eighth hand, which rife ere& over each ihoulder, and lift their heads? confiderably above it ". " " / > land's Itin. Hearne Vol. IX. p. 146. and Mr. Angier. in HoriGeleyi p. 413. Mr. Horfeley p. 373 has miftakenly carried this road ibuth as far as the Roman road frbm Tadcafter to Mancheftgr. ~— * Richard's feventh Iter, Rerigonium, Ad Alpe& Penino6, Ali- cana, Ifurium. And fee B. I* <?h. vi. fed. 2.— J 1 : See Camden p. 567. — > s Camden p. 568.— *Hichardp. 27. And:in Moittfaucon's Antiquite Expliquee torn. II. p. 419. is an Alpine Infcription to Jipiter by the title of Deo Pennino Optimo Maximo^— 7 So, Pen* dleton and Pendlebury near Mancheiter arc written in all our old records Pen-hull-ton and Pen-huli-bury. So Pendletob near Clitherow is called Penhulton in an antient record of Dugdale's Baronage, Vol! I. p. 789. And another eminence not far from Penigent and in Wenfley-dale is alio called Pen-hill, — *See alio Gale p. 17. Horfeley p. 373. and Richard's feventh Iter for this road; — • AL for Ar, Upon ; See Baxter in Jbelnium and Lhuyd in p. 31- Hence Alicana and Ariconium are the. fame in? import.: The fpecified diftances in the feventh Iter, frocft iReragonium to Ad
 * R. I.ch. iv. fe&. i . andch. v. fe&. k— *Dr.Riehardibn ift Le->