InscriBpED RoMAN STONES OF DUMFRIESSHIRE. nly 
The altar is dedicated to Viradecthis, probably a German or 
Gaulish deity. PAGVS must be taken as the name of a district, 
not of an individual. CONDRVSTIS is an ethnic adjective derived 
from the Condrus7, a tribe spoken of by Ceesar (B. G. iv. 6, &c.) as 
inhabiting, along with the Eburones, the basin of the Meuse, which 
was in later times the home of the Tungrians. 
If we now expand the inscription we shall have :—Deae 
Viradecthi [sacrum]. Pagus Condrustis imilit(ans) in Coh(orte) LT. 
Tungror(um) sub Silo[t|o Auspice, praef(ecto) | fecit|; 2.e., ‘‘ (Sacred) 
to the goddess Viradecthis ;” z.c., ‘‘ The Condrusian district (= the 
soldiers from that district), serving in the Second Cohort of Tun- 
erians, under the command of Silvius Auspex, the prefect, (erected 
this).” 
The name of the same prefect of the Tungrians appears on 
several other Birrens stones. 
8. “Found at the station at Burrens” (Pennant); now at 
Knockhill, near Keclefechan, in a summer-house (1896). 
The pedestal of a statue of Fortune (a fragment of which 
still remains attached to it), 114 in. high and 1 ft. 2 in. broad. It 
is without any ornament except a plain moulding at the base. 
The right corner of the slab has been 
FORTVNAE I broken off, so that the first two lines, and 
SALVTE P CAMPA probably the third, are incomplete. In the 
Se ae aie first Pennant read R, now seemingly an I. 
LLM Fortune was one of the official deities of 
the Romans. 
Completing and expanding, we have :—/ortunae R(educt) (pro) 
salute P. Campant, Italici praef(ecti) Cohorts) IL). Tun(grorum), 
Celer Libertus |votum solvit| Kibens) Mubens) m(ertto) ; 2.e., “To 
Fortune that brings the absent back, Celer, a freedman, for the 
safety of [his master] P. Campanus, an Italian Prefect of the 
Second Cohort of Tungrians, gladly, willingly, deservedly (per- 
formed his vow).” 
9. (Fig 3.) Same recent history as No. 8. 
A sepulchral slab, 7 ft. 44 in. high and 1 ft. 104 in. broad. 
The surface has suffered greatly from exposure, but except part of 
the fifth line the reading can still be made out. 
Instead of the actual text, Pennant gives an expansion of it, 
which has been copied by all subsequent writers. There is an 
