APPENDIX. 



The following paper was read at the meeting of the Club, held at 



Jedburgh, on Wednesday, May 27th, 1885. 



THE ROMAN INSCRIPTION IN JEDBURGH ABBEY. 



By the Rev. J. C. Beuce, LL.D., D.C.L., F.S.A., etc. 



A short time ago the Marquis of Lothian did me the kindness 

 to send me a east in plaster-of- Paris of the Roman inscription in 

 Jedburgh Abbey. On two occasions the attention of the members 

 of our Club has been called to this stone. The Rev. James 

 Farquharson, in his Presidential address in 1882, thus refers to it: 

 — " In the roof of the turret stair, to the north of the west en- 

 trance, a stone is embedded, on which lettering, believed to be 

 Roman, occurs. We were informed that the words ' Julius Ca3sar' 

 are found in the inscription, but no member succeeded in decipher- 

 ing the name of the ' great Caesar.' " * 



Again, in the account of the " Restoration of Jedburgh Abbey,' 

 by Mr. James Watsorx, which appears in the tenth volume of om* 

 Proceedings, at page 137 the following passage occurs : — "Another 

 stone which has proved of some interest to antiquarians is built in 

 as a lintel at the foot of the north-west turret stair. It is of 

 Roman origin, and the inscription begins with the well-known 

 i.o.M. — Jupiter Optimiis Maximus." The following contracted 

 words can easily be made out : — caesa. sever, trie. ; but the 

 inscription, as a whole, has never been deciphered. ... An illus- 

 tration of this stone is given in the first volume of Jefirey's Bisiory 

 of Roxhurghshire.''' 



* Proceedings, Vol. X., p. 43. 



