page_title: Viridios
section_title: The Ancaster inscriptions
hierarchical_section_title: Viridios / The Ancaster inscriptions
caption_attribution_description: English: This is the stone found by the TV show Time Team in 2001.
context_page_description: Viridios, or Viridius, is a god of ancient Roman Britain.
context_section_description: The first inscribed stone was discovered in 1961 in a grave in Ancaster.  R.P. Wright  reports the find thus: 
  Ancaster (Causennae), Lincs (pl. XXVII, 2). Limestone slab, 271 by 12 in., 
  found in 1961 in digging a grave in the new cemetery on the west side of 
  the Roman W ditch (see above, p.167). The stone had been re-used to form 
  a medieval grave-cover, and in this process the lower moulding and part of 
  1. 3 had been trimmed off, and on the back the upper and lower edges had been 
  chamfered. As the height of the letters in 1. 2 is 34 in. and substantially 
  exceeds the height of 2-1 in. of 1. i, it seems likely that the text is complete; 
  it reads:
  DEO VIRIDIOTRENICO ARCVMFECITDESVODON
  If the text is complete Trenico must be the dedicator and subject of fecit and 
  don(avit). The god Viridios is unmatched.
  The Latin inscription may be translated in English as: For the god Viridius, Trenico made this arch, donated from his own funds. This stone is now in The Collection Museum in Lincoln.
  A second inscribed stone was discovered in 2001 by British Channel 4 Television's archaeological programme Time Team.   The stone was discovered as part of a late Roman or early Sub-Roman cist burial, being used as a side slab in the grave.   Located near the grave where the first inscribed stone was found, the inscription on this second stone reads:
  DIO VRID
  SANCT
  which has been interpreted as: To the holy god Viridios.
caption: The Time Team stone found in 2001
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