Co&SRIDGE*
A n t i q u i t i e s .
froteilion of the fin of your king. The man, perhaps a LaituM
reduced by necefiity to this courfe of life, was affected wit*
gallant confidence, devoted himfelf to her fervice, and concj
his royal charge till he found opportunity of conveying then*
yond the reach of their enemies.
Crofs at this place the Watling-Jireet, which runs direct*
Ebchejler, the antient Vindomona: pafs the Tyne, on a bridyfl
feven arches, near whofe northern end is Corbridge, a finall toy
but formerly confiderable; for Leland fays, that in his time wt
the names of diverfe ftreets, and great tokens of old foundatl
Near Corbridge is Colchefter, a ftatioa on the line of the wall] tl
old Corftopitum; the Roman way pafles through if, and was Cot
tinued on the other ihore by a bridge, whofe ruins Leland wal
formed of by the vicar of the pariih. Mr. Horjley acquaint} u
that even in his time fome veftiges were to be feen *. A litt
above is the .ftnall ftream of Corve +. Leland, p., 212, of th|
cond volume of his ColleAanea, relates that king John, when hewa
at Hexham, caufed great fearch to be made after a treafure, he ha
heard was hidden- here, but to his difappointments found nothin
but ftones, old brafs wire, iron and lead. Abundance of antiquar
treafures have been found here fince : among others, an infcrif
tion to Marcus Aurelius Antoninus ; another commemorating atcc
hort, that made part of the wall; here is alfo a figure of VifW
holding in her hand, I think, a flag. But the moil: curious antj
quities are the two Greek infcriptions, and the filver plate foutj
in the adjacent grounds. The infcriptions are on two altars. I
* Itin. v. 112.
f Ibid* firi
til is mentioned, p. 71, of the former volume 5 and was erected
yPulcher to the goddefs Aft arte. The other, in the poflefiion of
he Duke of Northumberland, is adorned on one fide with a wreath;
n the other, with an ox’s head, and a knife ; and erefted, as the
jifcription imports, by the chief prieftefs Diodora, to the Tyrian
tanks *.
The other antiquity, which is alfo in his grace’s cabinet, is of
U c h l e f s beauty and rarity : it is a piece of plate, of the weight
if a hundred and forty-eight ounces, of an oblong form, twenty
Lches by fifteen f , with a margin enriched with a running foliage
if vine leaves and grapes. The hollow is about an inch beneath.
In this is a fine aflemblage of deities. Apollo appears firft, ftand-
hg at the door of a temple, with wreathed pillars, with capitals
if the leaves of Acanthus. In one hand is his bow ; in the other
»laurel branch. His feet Hand on a fceptre, and near that his
lyre refts againfl: one of the columns. Beneath him is a fun-
lower, the emblem of Phcebus; and a griffin, that poets couple
p his chariot.
Ac fi P h o eb u s adeftj et frenis Grypha jugalem
Riphao tripodas repetens deftorlit ab axe
Tunc fylv<e, & c . Clatidiati. vi. Cons. H o n o r i i .
1 Vejta fits next to him, veiled and clo’athed with a long robe 5
b back leans againfl: a round pillar, with a globe on the top,
and under her the altar, flaming with eternal fire.
' Horjley, Northumberland, p. 246. Archaelogia. vol. II. 92. 98. v o l. IH. 324.
t This defcription is borrowed from the learned Mr. Roger Gale's account, and
te print by Mr. William Shafto.
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