Viridios

Inscribed stones dedicated to Viridios have been recovered in the Romano-British town of Cavsennae or Cavsennis, now Ancaster, Lincolnshire, in England.

[3]The Latin inscription may be translated in English as: For the god Viridius, Trenico made this arch, donated from his own funds.

[4] A second inscribed stone was discovered in 2001 by British Channel 4 Television's archaeological programme Time Team.

[5] 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.

[4] Wright[3] specifically addresses such speculations, but notes that such a connection cannot be affirmatively made as there are no firm historico-linguistic connections in evidence between the modern conception of Viridios as a Celtic deity and the god Viridios referenced on the inscriptions: For the stem of Trenico there is a Dobunnian Trenus cited on a diploma (CIL XVI, no. 49).

Professor K. Jackson concurs in 'lively', 'vigorous', or 'virile' as the probable translation of Viridios, but says that certainty is unattainable as there are no derivatives in medieval or modern Celtic languages.

[3]An additional limestone figurative carving, probably used as an altarpiece, was also found near Ancaster and dated to the late Iron Age.