Aquae Sulis a major Roman Baths complex associated with an adjoining temple. About 130 messages to Sulis scratched onto lead curse tablets ("defixiones") have been recovered from the Sacred Spring by archaeologists. Most of them were written in Latin, although one discovered was in Brythonic, and usually laid curses upon those whom the writer felt had done them wrong. This collection is the most important found in Britain. The Brythonic curse recovered on a metal pendant is the only sentence in the language that has been discovered. It reads: "Adixoui Deuina Deieda Andagin Uindiorix cuamenai" or maybe "Adixoui Deiana Deieda Andagin Uindiorix
Gilsland Spa Gilsland Spa Gilsland Spa is the present-day name of a hotel at Gilsland, Cumbria, England. It is named from the sulphurous spring which issues from a cliff below the hotel. The original hotel was called The Shaws, from an Old English word meaning a small woodland, and was built in the 1760s, although the site and its surrounding farmland have been known by this name since at least 1603. Lord William Howard's map of the Barony of Gilsland of this date shows two buildings near the site of the hotel labelled "Two tenements called the Shaws". Very little is known