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Are no fragraents yet traceable in any of the ancient walls 

 of buildlngs or gate-posts in tlie neiglibourhood ? l^o 

 search has ever yet been macle, and no attention called to 

 the subject ; but tbe visits of the Somersetshire Archajolo- 

 gical and Natural History Society seem to afFord a very 

 fitting opportunity to call attention to this subject, in the 

 hope that sometliing may result from it, at all events any 

 inscribed fragments of stone which may in futui'e be found 

 in the neighbourhood shoukl be carefully preserved, and 

 not bruken up, as is too often the case, before being shewn 

 to some competent antiquary. Not wlthout hope, I pro- 

 ceed to give an account of what once existed at Glaston- 

 bury. 



William of Malmsbury gives an account of certain 

 monuments at Glastonbury, thus : — " I would willingly 

 relate what few if any are acquainted with, if I could make 

 it out with certainty, the meaning of those pyramids which 

 stand before the monks' cemetery, some feet from the old 

 church. The tallest and nearest to the church consists of 

 five stories, i.e. pannels (tabulatus) and is 28 feet high. 

 This, though i-eady to fall with age, has some features 

 of antiquity, which may be more easily read than under- 

 stood. In the upper story {i.e. highest pannel) is a figure 

 episcopally habited. In the second, one in the dress of a 

 king, and these letters HEß, sexi, & blisvverh. In the 

 third, only names — avemcheste (read also Feuerest), 

 BANTOMP, wiNVVEGN (or Pinepegu). In the fourth — 

 HATE (or Bäte), wvlerede (or Pvlfred), and eanflede. 

 In the fifth and lowest, a figure and this inscription — 

 LOGVVOR (read also Logor and Logpor), weslielas 

 (or Peas Licas), & bregdene, svvelvves (or Spclpes), 

 nvviNGENDES (or Hipin Gendes), berne. The other 

 pyramid is 18 feet high, and has four stories (pannels), 



