· · · · · · ALAE
II ASTVR[UM]· · · ·
CILURNUM APPROPRIATED.
Now, as the Notitia represents this ala, or troop of cavalry, to have been stationed at Cilurnum, the probability is, that the camp on the west bank of the North Tyne is the Cilurnum of Roman Britain.
Immediately following ‘The second wing of the Astures at Cilurnum,’ on the Notitia list, is, ‘The first cohort of the Batavians at Procolitia.’ Now the station immediately west of Chesters is Carrawburgh, and here a slab and an altar have been found, inscribed with the name of this very cohort. The woodcut represents one of them,[[31]] an altar to Fortune, which is thus inscribed—
FORTVNAE
COH I BATAVOR[UM]
CVI PRÆEST
MELACCINIVS