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XVII. Observations on some Roman Altars, found in August 1771, near Graham's Dyke. By Mr. Gough
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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The workmen employed to cut the new canal of communication between the Forth and Clyde, digging in August 1771, near one of the most considerable stations on Graham's Dyke, at Auchindavie, had the good fortune to light on four altars of different sizes, with inscriptions on one side of each, very legible. They had been thrown into a pit with the iron heads of two large sledge hammers, and the shoulders of a bust of the same materials with the altars, viz. of the grit stone of the county. Whether these hammers had belonged to the proprietor of the altars, or were used to demolish the temple, is uncertain. But as they were all buried together in the same pit and at the same time, they had probably served some purposes about the temple or fort, perhaps for knocking down victims.
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page 119 note * See Pl. VIII.
page 120 note [a] See Horsley, p. 162.
page 120 note [b] Horsl. North, IX. a.
page 120 note [c] Horsl. Yorksh. XIII.
page 121 note [a] ——— “jurat
Solam Eponarn et facies olida ad praesepia pictas.” Sat. viii. 155.
page 121 note [b] Respicio pilae mediae quae trabes stabuli sustinebat, in ipso fere metiullio Eponae deae simulachrum residens aediculae, quod accuratè corollis roseis, et quidem recentibus fuerat ornatum. Metam. III. p. 5. edit. 1623. See also Vossius de Idolol. l. IX. c. 33.
page 122 note [d] Guillemanus de Reb. Helvetier. III. c. 10. § 2. ap. Cellar. Geog. II. p. 4.
page 123 note [e] Var. Lect. l. xxiv. c. 4.
page 123 note [f] Northumberland, CXIII. Cumberland, XLII.
page 123 note [g] Cumb. LXVIII. Chesh. II. Durh. xv. Insc. Hispell.