112 INSCRIBED RoMAN STONES OF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 
The stones are taken up in the order in which they were from 
time to time discovered, so far as that can be ascertained. 
In the attempt to ascertain the true reading and meaning of 
the inscriptions, both of which are in some cases obscure, much 
valuable assistance has been received from Mr F. Haverfield, 
M.A., F.S.A., Christ Church, Oxford. 
1. A fragment of an inscribed stone containing these letters 
was seen at Birrens in 1729 by Sir John Clerk; probably 
ee also by Alexander Gordon a few years earlier. It was 
at that time built into the wall of a cottage. Horsley 
(Brit. Rom., p. 207) states that Sir John intended removing it to 
Penicuik House; but there is no evidence that he did so. Both 
Bishop Pococke and Maitland saw it at Birrens in the same position 
a number of years afterwards. 
The fragment seems to have been long lost. Both the char- 
acter of the stone of which it had been a part and the meaning of 
the letters are uncertain. Horsley conjectures that it may “have 
been of the centurial kind. 
2. (Pl. L., fig. 8, and pl. II., fig. 4.) Found in 1731 at Birrens 
by Sir John Clerk in an old building that stood in the grounds of 
Land, and near the west side of the station; preserved at Penicuik 
House, Mid-Lothian, from 1731 to 1857; presented in 1857 to the 
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by Sir George Clerk, Bart. ; 
now in the National Museum, Edinburgh. 
A statuette of Brigantia, who was probably the eponymous 
deity of the Brigantes, a powerful tribe in possession of a great 
part of the north of England, and perhaps of some portion of the 
south of Scotland, at the time of the Roman invasion. It stands 
in a hollow niche, 3 ft. } in. high and 1 ft. 6 in. broad at the base. 
The goddess is represented with wings, and as dressed, partly 
at least, in the garb ofa Roman warrior. On her head is a castel- 
lated ornament, in her right hand 
a spear, in her left a ball. At 
her side is a shield, on her breast 
a small Gorgon’s head. The art of this piece of sculpture is by 
no means of a high order of excellence. 
The § in the middle of the first line of the inscription stands 
for sacrum. IMP at the end of the last line has not been satisfac- 
torily explained. Sir John Clerk thought he saw an additional 1; 
BRIGANTIZ;. S . AMANDVS 
ARCITECTVS . EX . IMPERIO IMP 
