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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt:...The writer counted 318 of them; there were doubtless many more. This coin was struck in the fourth consulship of the Emperor, A.d. 145, to commemorate the exploits of Lollius Urbicus in Britain (see page 7), a period in which the country was reduced to its lowest state of depression. Britain, personified as a disconsolate female, sits upon a rock. She has no helmet upon her head, no sword or spear in her hand. Her head droops, her banner is lowered, her shield is idly cast away. The legend is Britannia. To circulate this coin in Britain was to add insult to injury. The well may be seen just inside the field dyke on the west of the station. It is usually half full or more of water, owing to the surface drainage. Before bidding a final adieu to this well the reader may be interested in the following account of it:--Many springs and rivers were consecrated by the Komans for their religious rites, for their lustrations at funerals and sacrifices, and before they entered their Sacraria or temples. Of this kind was their Fons Blandwsiae, and their Flumen Clitwmni. And of this kind, probably, is their well here at their station of Carrawbrough, called the Roman well. It is between two sloping fields, on the west side of the station, just under it, to the south of their famous wall, about 400 or 500 yards from the 25th mile-stone on the military road; square, and faced with freestone, of hewn-work; and has either had a dome over it, or been walled round; the stones now lying about it, nearly covered with water from the conduit's being stopt, and demolished by the carelessness or ignorance of a plowman, as I am informed; it is full up to the brim and overflowing, in the hottest summer; and by that man's indiscretion, he that would satisfy his curiosity to see it mus...