Insceibed Roman Stones of Dumfriesshire. 



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the privilege of Latin citizenship, under the command of their 

 Prefect, Caius Silvius Aiispex, (erected this)." 



Fig-. 4. Scale y^. 



This altar was first described in the Dumfries and Galloway 

 Coufier iov August 2Cth (with woodcut) and Sept. 7th, 1813. It 

 is also the subject of a communication from A.I.K., " New Kent 

 Road," London, in the Getifleiiiatis Magazine for June, 1S32. But 

 it was only on the publication of Wilson's Prehistoric Annals of 

 Scotland m 1851 that it attracted general attention. 



13. Probably dug up near the same place as Xo. 12. date un- 

 certain ; in the garden of the farm-house of Laud (189G). 



