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II. — An Inscribed Stone in the Churchyard of Stowford, Devon.- 

 WiLLlAM C. BORLASE, Castle Horneck, April, 1870. 



-Bij 



Read at the Spring Meeting, May 17, 1870. 



ON entering the little churchyard of Stowford, the eye of the 

 stranger is attracted by a monumental pillar, standing on the 

 top of the hedge, to the right of the entrance gate. This will be 

 found, on closer examination, to be a hard sand-stone, about 5 feet 

 in height, and as thick in the centre as a man can span, but 

 gradually tapering towards the top, where it is as round and 

 smooth as a boulder washed by the sea. On the flat side is 

 engraved a remarkable inscription, the characters of which are 

 unlike those of any alphabet with which I am acquainted. 



Owing to the impervious nature of the stone, the letters have 

 been preserved in what seems to be almost their original state ; 



