iv .Appendix. 



have expanded them as I find Professor Hiibner has expanded 

 them, and I have no donbt correctly, in the Corpus Inscriptionum 

 Latmnrimi, Vol. YIl., Nos. 987, 988. 



I have only one more remark to make. The tribune's name I 

 would have read Ji/Jins Severiis, had I not found that on an altar 

 dedicated to Fortune, found in the station of Habitancum, the name 

 of the tribune who dedicates it is given thus : — ivl. severinvs. 

 No doubt this is the same individual as the ivl. sever, of the 

 Jedburgh stone. 



This altar, which is a very fine one, is now in the Museum of 

 the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle. It may be interesting" to 

 our members to see a drawing of it. The woodcut inserted on 

 the former page represents it ; which, together with the previous 

 woodcut, has been kindly lent by the Newcastle Society. The 

 inscription is : — 



rORTVNAE • REDVCI 

 IVLIVS SEVEUINVS 

 trib[vnvs] EXPLICITO Jf 

 BALINEO • V.S.L.M. 



" To Fortune, that brings back in safety, Julius Severinus, the 

 tribune, on the completion of the bath, erects this altar in dis- 

 charge of a vow to a most deserving object." 



Habitancum is situated upon the Watling Street. Jedburgh 

 is only two miles distant from this Roman road. It would be an 

 easy thing for the Rhati Gesati to find their way from Risingham 

 to Jedburgh. 



It is not a little interesting to the student of our country's 

 history, after having meditated upon the state of things which 

 existed when the Abbey was reared, to have his mind carried a step 

 higher, by the examination of this Roman stone, to a time when 

 Britain was one of the feeblest of the powers of the earth. 



22 DEC 1887 



