THE ST. HILARY INSCRIBED STONE. 



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together witli those subsequently arrived at by Mr. Blight and 

 Mr. Edmonds : — 



Canon Rogers. Blight. Edmonds. 



•S P LS P UIIU/ll 



FLAV VS PL - IV FL IV ///// 



CONSTANTINO CONSTA ///// CONSTANTINO 



PIO AVGVS PIOA PIO / 



5 CAES CAES CiVES 



DVCI I'lCOI D/ \CI 



fONSTANTI . . ONSTANTI ONSTANTI 



PII PII PII 



AVG AVG AVG 



10 FILIO FILIO FILIO 



The latter enters on a somewhat elaborate argument in a paper 

 in Arclusologia Camlrensis (vol. iv, 3rd series, p. 176), in favour 

 of the opinion that the Constantino referred to was Constantino 

 the younger, the son of Constantino the Great. It does not 

 appear that either of these gentlemen had rubbings of the stone 

 such as those before you, of which one was taken by Mr. 

 Alexander Paull and myself in 1862; the other by me, last 

 summer, with the aid of Mr. Whitley and of the present vicar, 

 Mr. ELingsford. This method appears to me to furnish most 

 satisfactory results in the case of obscure and weatherworn in- 

 scriptions ; besides that it has the great advantage of presenting 

 — as photography does when it can be favourably used — an 

 authentic copy of the lines instead of an interpretation of them 

 — a fac-simile, as far as it goes, which can be submitted to any 

 number of experts, at whatever distance. In this instance, with 

 Mr. Paull's permission to make free use of his rubbing, it was 

 submitted to Prebendary Scarth, a very competent authority. 

 He has satisfied himself that the inscription should be read as 

 follows : — 



IMP. CAES 

 FLAVI [O VAl] 



constantino 



pio[f.]invic[to] 



5 CAES . . . G 



DIVI 



constanti 

 PII 



AVG 

 XO FILIO. 



