OGAM STONE AT LEWANNIOK. 287 



The Ogams are cut on the right hand angle of the stone, 

 and read from the bottom upwards, as follows : 



I I I I I //ll I I I I I I I !/ I I I I / I I ///// 



M M I // I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I / I I I I / I I ///// 



I G E N A V I M E MO R 



This is merely a repetition of the Latin legend.*' There is 

 no difficulty about the reading as far as avi, but after this it 

 becomes somewhat obscure. The unusual position of the first 

 two strokes of the final R may be explained by the necessity of 

 avoiding cutting the initial i of the Latin inscription. The 

 remaining strokes slope the right way after this difficulty had 

 been got over. It is to be hoped that Prof. Ehys will give 

 some notes on the inscriptions at an early opportunity. 



The foregoins: report appeared this year in the July 

 number of the Archceologia Cambrensis, accompanied by this 

 plate, for permission to use which I am indebted to the courtesy 

 of the Committee of the Cambrian Archaeological Association. 

 Since the account was written I have again visited the stone, 

 and have discovered that a slight error has been made in my 

 reproduction of the Ogam inscription. In the last name the 

 upright letter on the narrow face of the stone, on the right side 

 of the Latin inscription, should have been drawn as a notch on 

 the angle only ; thus making four notches in all, equivalent to 

 the letter e, as shewn in the diagram given in the letterpress. 

 I also omitted to point out that Mr. J. Eomilly Allen, F.S.A. 

 Scot., to whom I sent the rubbings immediately after discovering 

 the stone, must be credited for deciphering the inscription, and 

 for observing the remarkable form of the r at the end of it, 

 wherein the first two strokes of the letter slope the wrong way, 

 for the reason already given. 



The word memoria in the Latin inscription is curious, and 

 there is a great temptation to read the legend as to the memory 

 oi INCENVVS. If this translation were correct, the Latin to 

 correspond should be incenvi memoriae ; but as there have 

 obviously never been any letters beyond the side of the stone, 

 such a reading as suggested is, therefore, quite inadaiissible. 



* The only differences beiny; that the Ogaui inscription begins IG instead 

 of iNG, the A of AVi is missing in the Latin version, and the final ia in the 

 Ogams. 



