120 SPEINa MEETING. 



published accounts and illustrations of this early Christian 

 memorial, and gave the discoverer full credit for his find, as 

 well as for the able manner in which he had elucidated nearly 

 every mark upon it. 



Mr. lago stated that Ogham stones had been long sought 

 for in Cornwall, as they were known to exist in Ireland, Wales, 

 and Devonshire, and had been traced as far towards Cornwall as 

 the eastern side of the River Tamar. For a great number of 

 years Mr. lago and the late Mr. Hawker the Vicar of Morwenstow, 

 as well as Professor Rhys and other antiquaries had been seeking 

 for Ogham stones in Cornwall, especially in north and east 

 Cornwall, but unless it should be found that Professor Rhys was 

 correct in regarding some marks as Oghams which he had 

 discovered on the Slaughter-Bridge stone, it had remained for 

 Mr. Langdon to have the honor of being the first to find such 

 a monument in the County. It had been recognized that 

 if any such memorials were to be discovered in Cornwall, they 

 would most likely be met with not far west of the Tamar, and 

 Mr. lago had often expressed such an opinion. He was there- 

 fore, he said, able to enter very fully into the pleasure which 

 Mr. Langdon had felt when the latter identified this example 

 in that region. He could quite understand the joy it had given 

 him, and offered him sincere congratulation. 



Mr. Langdon had taken excellent rubbings of the stone, 

 showing the incisions. The inscription was cut in two alphabets, 

 viz : in Roman letters across the face of the stone, and in Ogham 

 characters up one angle of the monument. He, Mr. lago, had 

 visited the stone more than once, and read the inscription for the 

 most part the same as Mr. Langdon had done. All the marks 

 described by the discoverer were found, — and there were, in 

 addition, one or two others which seemed to have been overlooked, 

 and these were important. Every stroke in a letter had to be 

 taken into account, for if one incision were omitted the true 

 reading might be lost sight of. He (Mr. lago) had told Mr. 

 Langdon, before informing anyone else, how he considered the 

 words should be read. Mr. Langdon seemed to acquiesce in the 

 amended view of the lettering — having written to say that he 

 was "converted to it," — he had not however published any 

 altered version in accordance with it, and Mr. lago therefore 



