Albert Way, esq., M.A., F.S.A., one of the Hon. Secretaries of the Archæological Institute, 26, Suffolk-street, Pall-Mall-East. Captain James Dent Weatherley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Thomas Weddell, esq., F.R.A.S., Addiscombe. Robert M. Weeks, esq., Ryton, Durham. Matthew Wheatley, esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Mr. Richard Cuthbertson Whinfield, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Mr. G. H. Whinfield, Pilgrim-street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Alfred White, esq., Curator and Registrar of the British Archæological Association, Tyndale-place, Islington. Robert White, esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Rev. Robt. Hopper Williamson, Rector of Hurworth. _Quarto._ John Williamson, esq., Glasgow. Mr. John Heron Wilson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Daniel Wilson, esq., Hon. Sec. Soc. of Antiquaries, Scotland. Mr. David Hamilton Wilson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. _Quarto._ Charles Winn, esq., Nostell, Wakefield. _Quarto._ William Woodman, esq., Town-clerk, Morpeth. M. Wright, esq., Trinity House, London. Thomas Wright, esq., M.A., F.S.A., Corresponding Member of the National Institute of France, etc. 24, Sydney-street, Brompton. Edgar Garston, K.S., Liverpool. Mrs. Grey, Dilston House, Northumberland. George Patten, esq., A.R.A., London. Mr. William Richardson, 71, Percy-street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. CONTENTS AND LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. _Page._ 1. FRONTISPIECE—PONS ÆLII restored. The site of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the PONS ÆLII of the Romans, is here shewn. The ground on which it stands, rising abruptly from the bed of the river Tyne, to the height of about an hundred feet, is cut into three very remarkable tongues of land by four ravines, permeated by as many streams, which all disembogue in the Tyne. The easternmost and largest of these tongues of land is that formed by the Ouseburn and Pandon-dean; the smallest by Pandon-dean and the Lort-burn; and the westernmost, wheron stands the castle, and formerly the Roman station, by the Lort-burn and Skinner-burn. Extensive suburbs probably occupied all these eminences. 2. TITLE—Modern Buildings on the site of PONS ÆLII. The Norman keep of the Castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; the Church of St. Nicholas; and the court-house for the county of Northumberland, built upon the site of the south-east corner of the station of PONS ÆLII. 3. Plan of the course of the Roman Wall _facing_ 1 PART I.—AN EPITOME OF THE HISTORY OF ROMAN 1 OCCUPATION IN BRITAIN.