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person coiniuemorated, and this inscription is thereforc 

 later than those before mentioned, and the fragment in 

 wliich it occurs may liave belonged to another monument. 

 And as the name Qlldilburga follows Trecea, thls is 

 probably a difFerent person from the abbess raentioned in 

 the longer inscription. 



5. On the other fragment are two lines of an inscription 

 in Runic characters, much defaced, and carelessly cut, then 

 some lines in a character resembling fir trees, but really a 

 character of which an exaraple has lately been found in the 

 West of England, and then the word " ORA." 



6. The other side has above the head of a female figurc 



BVGGA VIRGO 



Two ladies of this uame are mentioned in the epistles of S. 

 Boniface, one the daughter of Centwine, King of the West 

 Saxons who built a church within her father's dominions. 



There are two letters written by St. Boniface to her, 

 about A.D. 733 ; and one from Bregowine, Archbishop of 

 Canterbury, to St. Lul, about A.D. 760, records her death. 

 Another lady of this name is mentioned in a letter from 

 the Abbess Cangith to St. Boniface, about A.D. 730. Mr. 

 Haigh conjectures this to be the person whose name occurs 

 in the Hackness monument. We have, therefore, in this 

 interesting monument three mscrijJtions in Latin — one in 

 Ogham characters ; one in Kunic ; one in what appears to 

 be Irish-Ogham ; and these contain the following names, 

 though more may be found when the two inscriptions as 

 yet undeciphered shall have been made out : 



1. Qlldilburga. 



2. Huetburga (?). 



3. Trecea. 



4. Q^dilburga. 



5. Bugga. 



