54 ANTIQUITIES NEAR LISKEARD. 



which defect, this is called the other-half stone : the 

 ground about this stone has been much tumbled 

 and searched by digging ; and in one of the hollows 

 is the other stone. On the top of it was a square 

 socket, very regularly sunk, the sides and top well 

 smoothed, above which the brim rises into a thin 

 edge, that ranged round the whole surface. One 

 side is diapered, as in the former stone, and in 

 another side (surrounded with a rectangular sulcus) 

 is the following inscription, Douiert rogavit pro 

 anima. The masonry of this is greatly superior to 

 that of the other ; and I apprehend it might be the 

 pedestal or plint of a cross, and that the other was 

 either placed at the other end of the grave, or was 

 erected for some other person about the same age. 

 "That by Doniert is meant Dungerth, King of 

 Cornwall, about the beginning (or rather middle) of 

 the ninth century, drowned in the year 872, or 873, 

 cannot be disputed (the G, before an E, being some- 

 times pronounced in British as a J, consonant, as 

 Georiy a giant), and also because the letters are 

 exactly the same with those on a monument in 

 Denbighshire, put up by Konken, King of Powis, 

 in the very same age. 



" The name is a name of dignity ; and this Doniert 

 was not only a prince, but a man of great piety, as 

 this solicitude for his soul testifies. 



"Of the person here named there can be no rea- 

 sonable dispute, but the meaning of the inscription 

 is doubtful. Some think it may signify that Doniert 

 gave those lands to some religious pui-pose. Cressy 

 had the same information, and calls this * a monu- 

 ment very ancient,' with this imperfect inscription, 

 ^ Doniert gave for the benefit of his soul, namely, 

 certain lands : ' * this solicitude,' says the same 

 author, * he had in the time of his health, for at his 

 death he could not shew it being unfortunately 

 drowned ;' but Cressy was misinformed, for he says 

 this monument is at Neotstow, or St. Neot's, whereas 

 it is three miles and a half distant, in the parish of 



