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274 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.This step used generally to be connected with theconquest of Southern Scotland about 140 A.D. by LolliusUrbicus, in the earlier part of the reign of Pius; butdiscoveries made in 1903 have shown that itbelongsrather to the governorship of Cn. Julius Verus (about157-160), and that there was a widespread revolt inNorthern Britain at the time. 4 Verus does not seem tohave succeeded in quellingit. When Marcus mountedthe throne in 161, a British war was in progress, andCalpurnius Agricola was despatched, probably in162 or163, to deal with it. 5 Presumably he was successful ;certainly we hear of no further British troubles tillabout 180.(2) Other discoveries made at Corstopitum on the siteof two buildings point to troubles overtaking the placeat this period. Coins and pottery unite in fixing thecommencement of work upon" Site XI " probably agreat store-house as subsequentto 140 A.D. ThePausanias VIII, xliii. 4.What exactly r^v Tevowiav p.oipav means, andwhere it was, is unknown. The idea mentioned by Mommsen (rom.Gesch. v. 172 n.) that it was Vinovia (Binchester) is not very probable.4For details, see Haverfield, Journal of the Derbyshire ArchaeoLSociety, xxvi. (1904) Archaeologia Aeliana, xxv. ; (1904) 142 ;and Proceedingsof the Soc. of Antiquaries of Scotland, xxxviii. 454. His conclusionshave been generally accepted, and further evidence fromScotland has been adduced by Dr. G. Macdonald, Roman Wall inScotland, pp. 9, 398.5 Hist. Aug., vita Marci 8 : imminebat etiam Brittanicum bellum . . .et adversus Brittanos quidem Calpurnius Agricola missus. The date ofhis governorship is not known exactly. Julius Verus was seeminglysucceeded by Statius Priscus, but he had left by 163 and is usuallyassigned to the years 161-2. On the other hand, Agricola saw servicein Germany at some date after 166 and before 170. In the passagequoted from the Historia Augusta, he is coupled with one AufidiusVictorinus who was sent to Germany, apparently, when Agricola wentto Britain, and we know that this Aufidius was probably in Germanyin 162. Probably, therefore, Agricola came to Britain about 162, andstayed two or three years.