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ST at the end of the first line undoubtedly had EAN added 
to it for the word ‘stone;’ another word followed the letters 
TUKI. It is unfortunate that this portion is lost, because 
with it probably the whole sentence might have been read. 
The inscription is probably of the tenth, or early in the 
eleventh, century.” 
Such is the information given me by Mr. Saull, as derived 
from friends of his own competent to give opinion on the sub- 
ject. As to the non-completion of the inscription, I have myself 
a strong opinion formed, from a close inspection of the relic now 
in my possession, that no further writing ever existed upon it. 
It has been suggested that the imperfect record was completed 
upon another slab, possibly a foot-stone to the same grave, of 
which the slab in question formed the head-stone. 
A writer to the Illustrated London News, I may add, 
gives the word TUKI as a proper name, but otherwise reads 
the characters as above described. 
