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The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon : a history of the early inhabitants of Britain, down to the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity ; illustrated by the ancient remains brought to light by recent research / by Thomas Wright ; with numerous engravings on wood (1902)

Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877 · London : Paul, Trench, Trubner · leaf 365

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been fovmd, one dedicated deo vetiri sancto,the other deo mogonti vitires. At Lanchester, in the countyof Durham, a small altar bore the simple inscription deo vit.Another found at Ebchester, in the same county, on one side ofwhich was the figure of a boar, and on the other that of a toad,had the… … Komau Altar fouad at Benwell {Cundercum). OHAP, X.] THE GOD VITIRES. 349 epithet s«y/r/«.s, or holy; on the first, which is represcnfod inthe accompanying cut, the inscription is merely deo VEXiaSANCT, to the holy god Vetris. This altar has the nsnal figuresof the implements of sacriticc. The other…

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