110 INSCRIBED STONES. 



By invitation of the Rev. John Shaw, Eector of South-hill, 

 I visited the stone on November 4th, 1891, in order that I 

 might decipher the full inscription. To facilitate this, Mr. Shaw 

 had the stone dug up and removed, a process which involved 

 considerable labour, in which he and I, with the Rev. H. 

 Hammond and several others, took part. 



When the stone was laid flat, entirely exposed to view, and 

 had been carefully washed, before re-erection, I succeeded in 

 reading the Inscription, and in taking some very distinct rubbings 

 of it. 



On my making known the legend to those who had been 

 taking a personal interest in the matter, Mr. Wills, the original 

 discoverer of the memorial, expressed to me his satisfaction at 

 the elucidation. I published the full reading Nov. 6th, 1891. 



At the next Meeting of the Members of the Royal 

 Institution of Cornwall, at Truro, Mr. Wills was present, by 

 my invitation, and availed himself of the opportunity of 

 examining the rubbings, which clearly shewed the whole 

 legend. Death has since removed Mr. Wills from our midst, 

 and his loss is very sincerely regretted. He died July, 1st, 1892. 



Sir John Maclean, F.S.A. (our President at a later date), 

 as Editor of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological 

 Society, asked me, soon afterwards, if I would supply him with 

 an illustration of the stone for that Society's XVIth Volume of 

 Transactions. I agreed, on condition that if I drew the stone 

 on the wood, for the engraver, the block should be eventually 

 returned to me. This was done, and the illustration is now 

 here inserted. (See Plate A.) : — 



The reading is as follows : — 



On the upper part of the front face is incised the well- 

 known and oft-found, Christian symbol, the Chi-Rho Monogram 

 for " Christos " (Christ), — the characters being conjoined in 

 upright-cross form. 



Two curved lines, below this, brace together the two 

 memorial rows of letters relating to the deceased person. The 

 two lines of inscription run perpendicularly down the face of 

 the stone. 



