The altar to Fortune, given in a previous page, shews us that at least a detachment of the sixth legion had, at some period, its abode here. [Sidenote: THE TWENTIETH LEGION.] A stone, [Illustration: alt=Symbol, Leg. XX.] preserved at the place, and of which an engraving is here given, bears testimony to the presence of the twentieth legion also, which was surnamed V[ALENS] V[ICTRIX], ‘the valiant and victorious’, and of which the symbol was a boar. This legion was first sent over to Britain by Claudius, and remained in it until the island was abandoned by the Romans. Horsley conceives that this legion was concerned in the erection of the Vallum, though, he adds, we have no inscriptions to prove it. He suspects that it was no-way concerned in building the Wall, because, among all the centurial inscriptions which had come under his notice, not one mentioned this legion, or any cohort belonging to it. The discovery, since the publication of the Britannia Romana, of this and other memorials to be noticed as we proceed, renders [Illustration: alt=Part of Slab to Hadrian] it probable that the twentieth legion was engaged upon both the Wall and the Vallum; and as, according to Horsley, ‘it is evident that this legion was at Chester in the year 154,’ where it long continued, the probability is strengthened, that the Wall, as well as the Vallum, was built before that period. A fragment of an inscription, represented above, bears direct reference to Hadrian. The Milking-gap slab, to which it has a very close resemblance, enables us to supply the parts that are wanting. The only difference seems to be, that the emperor’s name is in the dative case instead of the genitive as in the other example. _IMP CA_ES TRAIA_N_ _HAD_RIANO _AVG P P_ _LE_G II _AVG_ _A PLATORIO NEPOTE LEG PR PR._ The cottage which Mr. Hedley erected for his own residence is, with the exception of the quoins, [Illustration: alt=Coping-stone, Roman ‘broaching’] entirely formed of stones procured from the station. In addition to the altars which stand in front of the house, several objects of considerable interest are built up in the covered passage which leads from the kitchen to the burn; among them is a range of Roman coping-stones, of the form shewn in the cut. The ‘broaching’ of the stones has been alluded to previously. Near the stables attached to the house, is a Roman altar converted into a swine-trough; the figure on its side seems to have been intended for an eagle, the emblem of the imperial Jove. A foretaste this of the day when every idol shall be cast to the moles and to the bats. May it speedily arrive! [Illustration: John Storey, Del. et Lith. THE CRAGS, WEST OF CRAG LOUGH. ] [Sidenote: VINDOLANA]