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Line 8.—The eighth line is much weathered, but IC is plain, 
then a small o and what seems to be a D or R, the rest 
is quite indistinct. 
The inscription, therefore, consists of eight lines, with the first 
half of the stone wanting. Any interpretation must therefore be 
uncertain until the remaining portion, if still existing, can be 
* found. 
The length or height is 1} feet. The width, in the direction of 
the lines of lettering, only 94 inches. It was found hy Mr. B. 
Panes of Blagdon, in the course of pulling down the ruins of an old 
house situated north of the Town-field, where so many remains 
have been discovered in carting away the old scoria for the 
purpose of being re-smelted. 
The form of the letters is rude, aud they are ill eut, and the 
use of the leaf stops would probably fix the date towards the 
time of the Antonines, which is also the date of some of the 
leaden Lamina, Professor Hiibner regards it as funereal, and 
restores it conjecturally, but with the greatest reserve, not feeling 
certain of some of the letters. 
M: | d M 
AVG ce. cornelio AVG 
VO RES to fratri sVO RES 
ROR FECIT tituta soROR FECIT. 
IVCENT miles coh. IV. Cent 
OMOROMA flavi dOMOROMA 
ORMIPS 
IC’OP 
Which may be read thus conjecturally 
[Dis] Manibus 
[C. Cornelio] Aue, (or Aug.) 
[to fratri s] uo Res 
[tituta so] ror fecit 
[Militi cohortis] TV. Cen [turia| 
[Flavi d] om Roma 
