122 INSCRIBED ROMAN STONES oF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 
A fragment of an inscribed stone, 16 in. high by 103 in. 
broad. Of the breadth there appears to be nearly one-half left ; 
how much of the length is uncertain. Only four letters 
of the inscripticn remain. The stone seems to have been a 
small votive altar slab, sacred toMA . . . , probably 
either Marti Victori or Matribus. 
MA 
SA 
14. ** Found about the year 1812 at Birrens,” and ‘in the 
collection of C. K. Sharpe, Esq.” (Wilson, Prehist. Ann. of Scot- 
Jand, 1st ed., 1851) ; depositedin the Museum of the University of 
Edinburgh” (Stuart, Ca/. Rom., 2nded., 1852) ; deposited by the 
Senatus of the University in the National Museum, Edinburgh, 
in 1866. 
A much ornamented and solid-looking altar, 4 ft. 7 in. high 
and 2 ft. 6 in. broad at the top. Well-marked mouldings divide 
the central porticn from the base and 
MARTI ET VICTO 
RIAE. AVG.C.RAE pedestal. Next to these at the top and bot- 
TI MILIT.IN COH tom are panelled spaces, filled with leaf- 
Darel anne work of the same character as in No. 12. 
AVSPEX - PRAEF. On the top are two volutes with a bason- 
Wooo Wein Mil shaped projection between them. ‘The 
C.RAETI of the inscription is explained as Czves Raetz, that is, 
soldiers levied in Raetia, now the south-east of Germany. | 
Expanding and translating, we have:— Marti et Victoriae 
Augustae[sacrum]. C(tves) Raeti milit(antes) in coh(orte) IL. Tungr 
(orum) cut praeest Silvius Auspex, Praef(ectus), [ fecerunt|. V(otum) 
s(olverunt) Kibentes) m(erito) ; 7.e., (Sacred) to Mars and Victoria 
the August. Raetian citizens, serving in the second cohort of 
Tungrians, commanded by Silvius Auspex, the Prefect, (erected 
this), They performed their vow willingly, deservedly.” 
15. Same recent history as No. 14. 
An altar 3 ft. 72 in. high and 1 ft, 112 in. broad. Above the 
inscription are four mouldings, alternately square and round; and 
below are two of the same kind. The top is 
Bie egipeteka similar to that of No. 14. 
BEDAE PAGVS 
VELLAVS MILIT Like the two at Hoddam Castle, this altar 
ae Se ea is dedicated to a foreign deity, Ricagambeda, of 
whom nothing isknown. Expanding, we read :— 
Deae Ricag(«)mbedae |sacrum). Pagus Vellaus milit(ans) Coh(orte) 
II. Tung(rorum) [fect].  V(otum) s(olvit) Krbens) m(erito). 
