CONTENTS.
PAGE
I. A Brief General Account op the Vallum of Antonine, - 1
Description of its route.
II. A Conspectus of Early Notices concerning the Wall, - 4
1. Roman Authors.
Julius Capitolinus. The Walling Tablets. Text of the
inscriptions. Date of the Wall. Testimonies of
Spartian, Dio Cassius, Herodian, Aurelius Victor,
Eutropius, St. Jerome, Paulus Orosius, Cassio-
dorus, Ammianus, Marcellinus, and Claudian, - 4
2. Gildas, Bede, and Nennius.
Historical and descriptive references by these writers, 16
III. Bo man Precedents regarding the Structure of Earthen
Bamparts, -.........28
Extracts from Hyginus, Vegetius, Caesar, Tacitus, Livy,
Bliny, and Varro.
IV. Modern Structural Accounts of the Wall of Antonine, - 35
Descriptions, etc., by George Buchanan, Timothy Bont,
Alexander Gordon, John Horsley, General Boy,
George Chalmers, and Bobert Stuart.
V. Descriptions of Sections,.....- - - 42
Breliminary Notes,......'--42
How the sections came to be undertaken.
General Remarks on the Interior of the Vallum, - - 44
Belative absence of stones in the vallum proper and
systematic layering in the soils forming it.
Explanatory Sketch,.......-46
Croy Hill,..........- 46
Account of this part of the course of the Wall.
Croy.—Section No. 1. Description, - - - - 48
„ Section No. 2. Description,..... 50
„ Section No. 3. Description,..... 53
„ Section No. 4. Description, = - ■- - 54
PAGE
I. A Brief General Account op the Vallum of Antonine, - 1
Description of its route.
II. A Conspectus of Early Notices concerning the Wall, - 4
1. Roman Authors.
Julius Capitolinus. The Walling Tablets. Text of the
inscriptions. Date of the Wall. Testimonies of
Spartian, Dio Cassius, Herodian, Aurelius Victor,
Eutropius, St. Jerome, Paulus Orosius, Cassio-
dorus, Ammianus, Marcellinus, and Claudian, - 4
2. Gildas, Bede, and Nennius.
Historical and descriptive references by these writers, 16
III. Bo man Precedents regarding the Structure of Earthen
Bamparts, -.........28
Extracts from Hyginus, Vegetius, Caesar, Tacitus, Livy,
Bliny, and Varro.
IV. Modern Structural Accounts of the Wall of Antonine, - 35
Descriptions, etc., by George Buchanan, Timothy Bont,
Alexander Gordon, John Horsley, General Boy,
George Chalmers, and Bobert Stuart.
V. Descriptions of Sections,.....- - - 42
Breliminary Notes,......'--42
How the sections came to be undertaken.
General Remarks on the Interior of the Vallum, - - 44
Belative absence of stones in the vallum proper and
systematic layering in the soils forming it.
Explanatory Sketch,.......-46
Croy Hill,..........- 46
Account of this part of the course of the Wall.
Croy.—Section No. 1. Description, - - - - 48
„ Section No. 2. Description,..... 50
„ Section No. 3. Description,..... 53
„ Section No. 4. Description, = - ■- - 54