FOUND IN BRITAIN. 1/7 



DEO ENDOVELICO 



PRAESTANTISS 

 IMI ET PRAESEN 

 TISSIMI NVMINIS 

 SEXTVS COCCEIVS 

 CRATERVS HONOR 

 INVS EQVES ROMA 



NVSEXVOTO. 



De "Wal also gives this inscription in liis MytliologicB Sepfenfrionalis 

 Monumenta (p. 73), and m Ms interpretation correctly supplies cultor 

 after numinii. 



I read the inscription thus t Legato Angnsti Proprsetore, Q. Cal- 

 purnius Coneessinius, Preefectus Eqnitum, csesa Corionototariim manu, 

 preesendssimi numinis dei [cultor] votum solvit. 



According to this view, the circumstances binder which the altar 

 was erected were these : — Calpiirnius Concessinius before going 

 into action with a band of Coriototares vowed to some god, that, if 

 successful, he would erect an altar to him. Having cut them to pieces 

 he performed his vow in grateful acknowledgment of the aid of that 

 deity, who had manifested on this occasion his characteristic of giving 

 most timely and effectual assistance. The only objection which I see 

 to the interpretation which I propose arises from the use of prmfectus 

 equitum, without giving the designation of those equites. To this it 

 may, I think, be replied, that the equites engaged in this action were 

 so well known at the time, that it was unnecessary to specify them ; 

 or that on the part of the altar which was broken off there may have 

 been some notice that sufficiently indicated them ; or that the force 

 may have been composed of different parties, ail of whom could not 

 be stated, and hence it was considered better to omit all than to name 

 some ; or, finally, that we have other examples of this omission. 



If mj interpretation be correct this stone possesses unique interest, 

 as the inscription is, so far as I am aware, the only one extant which 

 records an engagement between the Romans and the Britons. 



10. In Horsley's Britannia Bomana, Northumberland, ix. a, we 

 find the following copy of an inscription on a stone found at Benwell, 

 the ancient Condercum : — 



