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GENIO ET SIGNIS COH[ORTIS] PRIMÆ F[AVENTIBVS] AR[AM] D[IS] V[NIVERSIS] L[OCI] C[ONDIDIT] R[OMANVS] EQ[VES] MILLE [HOMINVM] T[ITVS].

Titus Licinius Valerianus, (a Roman Knight) Tribune of one thousand men, built this to the Genius and all the Gods of the Place, who were favourable to the Standards of the First Cohort.

GENIO ET SIGNIS COH[ORTIS] I F[IDÆ] [V*] ARDVL [ORVM] C[IVIVM] R[OMANORVM] †EQ[VITATÆ] T[ITVS] LICINIVS VALERIANVS TRIB[VNVS].

To the Genius and Standards of the First Cohort, the faithful of the Varduli Roman Citizens, Cavalry,† a thousand strong.‡ Titus Licinius Valerianus Tribune erected this.

Each Cohort was commanded by a Tribune (or Colonel), to which office a knight became eligible after five years' services, and a plebeian after ten.

The inscriptions inserted in the appendix of the Roman Wall, pages 457 and 460, have already appeared in the Newcastle Journal. The following is taken from a broken and designedly mutilated stone, of which Mr. Bruce gives a copy, with his explanation, page 458 appendix.

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