118 InscriBepD RomMAN STONES oF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 
inscription (Henzen’s, No. 6773), which seems to fix the meaning 
of ordinato here as ‘“‘ Centurion.” Pennant inserts ¢r7duno after 
ordinato, but without any authority. 
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pa BASSTOR 
AFVTIANO 
BASSI. OR H D INAT O>*. 
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Fig. 3. Scale +5. 
2 
We may expand thus:—-D(s) M(anibus) [sacrum|. Afutiano 
Bassi, ordinato Coh(ortis) LL. Tun’ grorum), Flavia Baetica, conjunx 
facliendum) curavit ; t.e., (Sacred) to the Divine Manes. To 
Afutianus, (son of) Bassus, centurion in the Second Cohort of 
Tungrians, his wife, Flavia Baetica, caused this to be erected.” 
The slab is interesting as the only relic we have of the 
Birrens cemetery. The spot where it was found has unfortu- 
nately not been recorded. But this monument and a fragment of 
another, now lost, seen by Pennant along with it, can have been 
but a small part of a class of lapidary records with which Birrens 
would have enriched us had the clue afforded by their dis- 
covery been followed up. <A search, even yet, for the spot might 
amply repay the cost. There is some evidence in favour of the 
supposition that the cemetery was situated to the west of the 
station proper. As its discovery would almost certainly be cf 
importance, it is permissible to hope that, at some future time and 
under suitable arrangements, an attempt may be made to find it. 
10. “Found at the station at Burrens” (Pennant); seen by 
Pennant at Hoddam Castle in 1772: ‘‘in the collection of Charles 
