[61]. So inviting a post would not escape the notice of the ancient British warrior—the appearances Mr. Hodgson describes, are not inconsistent with its having been an Ancient-British strong-hold.
[62]. Drawn to twice the usual size.
[63]. The author, as the leader of the pilgrim-band who traversed the Wall in the summer of 1849, used a staff made out of this primeval oak. It is now in the Newcastle collection of antiquities.
[64]. Tour, iii. 313, quoted by Brand, i. 37.
[65]. Brand’s Newcastle, i. 37.
[66]. Jerusalem was called after him Ælia Capitolina, and the games at Pincum, in Mæsia, Ælia Pincensia.
[67]. Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities.
[68]. In the possession of the Society of Antiquaries at Somerset-house. The wood-cuts are drawn to twice the usual scale.
[69]. Baxter, in his glossary, derives it from the ancient British words Pen ual, the head of the Wall. A comparatively modern village would hardly take a Celtic name; besides, although the Roman station has a commanding prospect in a military point of view, it is scarcely so elevated as to be entitled to the epithet of Pen or Ben; the village of Benwell is below it.
[70]. History of Manchester, i. 224.