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No. 117 -- ROMAN MONUMENTS -- No. 118

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Fig. 44. Roman fort, Castlecary (No. 117); building-inscription iv (1/10)

(milliaria). "The First Cohort of Tungrians, 1,000
strong, erected [this] for the Emperor Caesar, Titus
Aelius Antoninus Augustus Pius, Father of his Country."
See C.I.L., vii, No. 1099; R.W.S., 412-3, and pl. iii, 1.
(v) A building inscription (Fig. 45) found inside the
fort in 1841, and now in the National Museum of
Antiquities, Edinburgh. It reads C(o)ho(rtis) VI
c(enturia) Anto(ni) Ararti. "The Sixth Cohort, century
of Antonius Arartus [built this]." See C.I.L., vii,
No. 1100; R.W.S., 401 and pl. lxxxi, 1.

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Fig. 45. Roman fort, Castlecary (No. 117); building-
inscription v (1/10)

(vi) A fragment of the upper part of an altar found
about 1770, when the canal was being made, and now in
the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. All that remains of
the inscription is the first word Deae, "To the goddess".
See C.I.L., vii, No. 1097; R.W.S., 422 and pl. lxxiv, 4.
(vii) A fragment of the lower part of a small altar
formerly in the National Museum of Antiquities,
Edinburgh, but temporarily mislaid. Only the last line
v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito), " -- paid a vow willingly
and deservedly", could be read with certainty. See
C.I.L., vii, 1098; R.W.S., 422.
(viii) A fragment of an inscription, now lost, on which
the letters H BAT are said to have been visible. It has
been suggested that the inscription may have referred
to the First Cohort of Batavians which has left inscriptions
at Carrawburgh and Carvoran on Hadrian's Wall, and
this is reasonable on the assumption that the figure I was
ligatured with the H of Coh(ors) as at Carrawburgh
(J.R.S., xl (1950), 114 no. 1). See C.I.L., vii, 1101;
R.W.S., 413-4.
(ix) A squared stone with XX incised on it, found in
1902 in the innermost ditch of the fort on the E. side.
See P.S.A.S., xxxvii (1902-3), 301.
(x) Fragments of two altars formerly at Cumbernauld
House, Dunbartonshire, but now lost. All that can be
said with certainty is that one of them was dedicated to
the Matres. See C.I.L., vii, 1094; R.W.S., 420.
(xi) A rectangular stone which was once thought to
have perished, ¹ but which has recently come to light in
the National Museum of Antiquities. It seems to have
been built originally into the wall of a building, most
probably a shrine, and measures 2 ft. 3 in. by 9 in. The
carving depicts two stags butting one another in a forest
glade, while on the left a hunter, perhaps Silvanus,
dressed in a short tunic and pointed cap, trains his bow
on the combatants. On the right there is a second figure,
dressed in similar fashion to the first but too much worn
to be clearly distinguished. See Stuart, Caledonia Romana
(2nd edition, 1852), 351 and pl. xiv, 11.
(xii) Part of the leg of a marble statuette found in
1841 (R.W.S., 445).
(xiii) A stone with a phallus built into the W. wall of
the garden at Castle Cary (No. 203).
(xiv) Part of the shaft of a column, also at Castle
Cary.

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118. Roman Temporary Camp, Little Kerse (Site).
This camp is situated a quarter of a mile S. of the
Antonine Wall and half a mile SE. of Little Kerse farm-
house. No trace of the structure remains on the surface
of the ground, and its presence was only revealed when
almost the complete outline, in the form of crop-marks,

1 R.W.S., 448.

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