44 DAVID MILNE HOME ON THE 
Jecit.” But if the tablet was set up in a wall or rampart, it would have been 
surplusage to have stated, that the “ fecit” and the 4652 paces, had reference 
to that work. 
It appears from STEwarv’s “ Caledonia Romana,” that along the line of this 
military rampart, several other tablets have been found, all in like manner indi- 
cating the number of paces constructed by different Legions. Three of these 
tablets were found very near the western termination of the wall on the Clyde, 
and on a hill or knoll in many respects similarly situated to that of Bridgeness. 
The traces of the rampart are not now visible very near its eastern termina- 
tion. JI have seen it in Callender Park, at Inveravon, and at Kinneil. These 
places are indicated on Sketch III. General Roy mentions that in his time, the 
ditch was visible not only at Kinneil, but also to the south of the House of 
Grange. Close to this last-mentioned point, an old cottage was shown to me 
by Mr Cavett, bearing the name of “Graham’s Dyke,” and this point is only 
about half a mile distant from Bridgeness. There can be little doubt, therefore, 
that the rampart went forward to the projecting rocky knoll, where the tablet 
was found. ; 
The knoll was in every way suitable, as a place at which the rampart 
should terminate, considering its object, viz., to form a barrier against the 
natives inhabiting districts to the north. The object of the Roman engineers 
evidently was, that each end of the rampart should be at the sea shore, or as near 
it as possible, so that an enemy might not easily get past the end of the rampart. 
Now Bridgeness is the first rock projecting into the sea met with coming 
from the west ; and in like manner, Chapel Hill on the Clyde is the first pro- 
jecting spur abutting on the river coming from the east. It was also probably 
thought that whinstone rock would afford a firmer foundation than any other 
kind of rock for the rampart, and for any building connected with it. 
It appears to me that the discovery of this tablet on Bridgeness promontory 
makes it so clear that the rampart terminated there, as to render any confirma- 
tion of the opinion quite unnecessary. Nevertheless, one or two circumstances 
may be just mentioned, without being insisted on:— 
1. The 4652, passus (on the assumption that a Roman passus contains five 
English feet) indicate 42 English miles. Now, this is almost exactly the 
distance of Bridgeness from Inveravon, a place where the rampart is still visible, 
and where an important Roman fort existed m connection with it. 
2. In the year 1642, the rampart must have been traceable along the high 
grounds bordering on the sea, for in that year a petition was presented to the 
Scotch Parliament, by the inhabitants and merchants of Borrowstounness, praying 
that a new parish should be formed out of the parish of Kinneil, and suggesting 
that the south boundary of the new parish should be “ Graham’s Dyke,” and that 
the east boundary (separating the new parish from Carriden) should run from 
