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506 SIR ARTHUR EVANS.
DOMINO CARAVSIO CES, and 011 the reverse
DOMIN. CONXTA[NTI]NO (Fig. 5). In the re-
verse inscription I venture to see a reference to
Constantino III, in the " Dominus Carausius Caesar "
of the obverse the name and title of some tyrannus
who had sprung up in the island at the moment
A.D. 409 when it had been practically cut adrift from
the rest of the Empire. Of the continued existence
of the historic name of Carausius in the island we
have indeed direct evidence in the inscribed tomb-
stone 121 found at Penmachno in Caernarvonshire re-
cording the sepulture of a Christian and later Carausius
FIG. 5. Bronze coin of Second Carausius
found at Richborough.
beneath a cairn. But no mint-mark is visible on the
coin referred to.
To the persistence of the Roman authority in Britain
in the early part of the fifth century we have a curious
testimony in the inscription which from its late
character was included by Dr. Hiibner in his Inscrip-
tiones Britanniae Christianae, referring to the erection
of a Castrum at Eavenhill, near Whitby, by a certain
Justinianus, Praepositus (Militum). This Justinianus
seems to have been the officer of Constantino III who,
accompanied by Nevigastes, was sent forward with the
121
Inscriptiones Britanniae Christianae, p. xx. Placed by Hiibner
among inscriptions written more Romano rather than more Britan-
nico, and therefore early of its class.