Inscribed Koman Stonks of Dumfriesshire. 123 



" (Sacred) to the goddess Ricagambeda. The Tellavian district 

 ( = soldiers from that district) serving in the Second Cohort of 

 Tungrians (erected tliis). They performed their vow willingly, 

 deservedly." 



IG. Same recent liistory as Nos. 14 and 15. 



A votive altar, 3 ft. high and 1 ft. 2f in. broad. The in- 

 scribed space is inclosed within a beading of cable pattern. Below 

 the beginning and end of the last line are two 

 ^B _ Q crescents. On the top are two plain volutes 



OMNiB with a "focus" between them. Didus iov deis 



FRVMENT iy frequently met with ou Roman inscribed 



IVSMIL.COHII ov.iiucu 



TVNGR . 



stones. 



The expansion and translation are as 

 follows : — Did(us) deab{us) q{ue) oninib{us) [sacrum]. Frumentius 

 mil{es) Cohiprtis) II. Tiingr{orum) {_fecif\. •' (Sacred) to all the 

 gods and goddesses. Frumentius, a soldier of the Second Cohort 

 of Tungrians. (erected this)." 



17. "Dug up in 1814 in a small vicinal camp on the banks of 

 the Kirtle, near Springkell " (Irvine MS., in libraiy of the Society 

 of Antiquaries of Scotland). 



An altar dedicated to Jupiter, now apparently lost. Spring- 

 kell IS distant from Birrens about three miles, and the altar might 

 easily have been carried from it to the spot where it was found in 

 various ways. But there is no absolute certainty of this. The 

 inscription is too imperfect to be intelligible. 



18. "A stone taken out of the heart of the wall of the church 

 at Hoddam. Dumfriesshire, when thrown down (in 1815) for the 

 purpose of building a new one" (Irvine MS.) ; since built into the 

 porch wall of the present church, where it still is (1896). 



It is a plain stone, 4 ft. 2 in. high and 1 ft. 8i in. broad. 



without any ornament or moulding. This is the second stone 



found in Dumfriesshire that marks the 



coH . \ ."n?kvana presence of the first cohort " called the 



GERMANOR . « . Ey Xervaua." 



three parishes united — Iloddam, Luce, 

 and Ecclefechan- -which were thrown into one about the middle 

 of the seventeenth century. The present church is distant from 



