The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . to enterScotland, and appear to have been long stationed at Blatum Bul-gium. It w\as indeed to two Tungrian and three Batavian cohorts thatAgricola was principally indebted for hisvictory over Galgacus. The valuable collec-tion of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharp, Esq., in-cludes three other altars, found about theyear 1812 at Birrens, all of them the fruitsof pious vows by the same Tungrian largest of these is a beautiful altar,in the very finest state of preservation, ofwhich the woodcut conveys a good measures fifty-five and
The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . to enterScotland, and appear to have been long stationed at Blatum Bul-gium. It w\as indeed to two Tungrian and three Batavian cohorts thatAgricola was principally indebted for hisvictory over Galgacus. The valuable collec-tion of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharp, Esq., in-cludes three other altars, found about theyear 1812 at Birrens, all of them the fruitsof pious vows by the same Tungrian largest of these is a beautiful altar,in the very finest state of preservation, ofwhich the woodcut conveys a good measures fifty-five and a half inchesin height by thirty inches in greatestbreadth at top, and twenty and a quarterinches across the inscribed front. Theinscription may be thus rendered: marti ET VICTORIA AUGUSTS CENTURIiE TIRONUMMILITUM IN COHORTE SECUNDA TUNGRORUM,CUI PRIEST SILVIUS AUSPEX, PR^ SOLVERUNT LUBENTES MERITO. The second of these altars found at Bin-ens is a small but neat one,measuring thirty-six inches high, by fourteen and five-eighth inchesin. 11 iiijiiiiiiiinByr lilRTiETVICl^RLAEAVG-ORae IiMiLrriNooi liTVMGR-CVf-FPAESSTSILVT/slAVSPDC-PRAEF- freatest breadth, thus inscribed DIB • DE AB • Q OMNB FRYMENT IVS MIL CII II TVXGR • It may be read : Diis deabusqde omnibus frumentius miles cohortisSECUNDA TUNGRORUM. The third altar, which is of simpler and ruderworkmanship, measures forty-three and three-quarter inches in height,by twenty-three and three-quarter inches in greatest breadth. Itappears to be dedicated by Pagus Vellaus to one of those obscurelocal deities, apparently provincial names with Latin terminations,which are more familiar than intelligible to the antiquary. It belongsto a class of Romano-British relics peculiarly interesting, notwithstand- THE HUMAN INVASION. 399 ing the obscurity of their dedications, as the transition-link betweenthe Roman and British mytliology. These altars of the adopted nativedeities are generally rude and inferior in d
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