INSCRIBED RoMAN STONES OF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 123 
(Sacred) to the goddess Ricagambeda. The Vellavian district 
(=soldiers from that district) serving in the Second Cohort of 
Tungrians (erected this). They performed their vow willingly, 
deservedly.” 
16. Same recent history as Nos. 14 and 15. 
A votive altar, 3 ft. high and 1 ft. 22 in. broad. The in- 
scribed space is inclosed within a beading of cable pattern. Below 
the beginning and end of the last line are two 
ee ee crescents. On the top are two plain volutes 
OMNIB with a “focus” between them. Didus for dets 
FRVMENT is frequently met with on Roman _ inscribed 
TVS EMULE N CO.) oe 01) 
NC stones. 
The expansion and translation are as 
follows :—Dzi0(ws) deab(us) g(ue) omnib(us) [sacrum].  Frumentius 
miles) Coh(ortis) If. Tungr(orum) | fecit|. ‘‘(Sacred) to all the 
gods and goddesses. Irumentius, a soldier of the Second Cohort 
of Tungrians, (erected this).” 
17. “ Dug up in 1814 in a small vicinal camp on the banks of 
the Kirtle, near Springkell” (Irvine MS., in library of the Society 
of Antiquaries of Scotland). 
An altar dedicated to Jupiter, now apparently lost. Spring- 
kell is distant from Birrens about three miles, and the altar might 
easily have been carried from it to the spot where it was found in 
various ways. But there is no absolute certainty of this. The 
inscription is too imperfect to be intelligible. 
18. “A stone taken out of the heart of the wall of the church 
at Hoddam, Dumfriesshire, when thrown down (in 1815) for the 
purpose of building a new one” (Irvine MS.) ; since built into the 
porch wall of the present church, where it still is (1896). 
It is a plain stone, 4 ft. 2 in. high and 1ft. 82 in. broad, 
without any ornament or moulding. This is the second stone 
found in Dumfriesshire that marks the 
PO presence of the first cohort “ called the 
COH . I, NERVANA ‘ t 
GERMANOR . ©. EQ Nervana. 
SVE TERNS Ibo WAS The parish of Hoddam consists of 
VS FELIX TRIB j : 
three parishes united— Hoddam, Luce, 
and Hceclefechan-—which were thrown into one about the middle 
of the seventeenth century. The present church is distant from 
