YIII. — The Ancient Inscribed Stones at Tregoney and Cubert. — By 

 C. Barham, M.D., Cantab. ; V.-P. of the Royal Institution of 

 Cornwall. 



THE purveyors for the Meeting of the Cambrian Archgeological 

 Association at Truro, in 1862, were fortunate in being able to 

 place on the walls of the temporary museum, the rubbings of two 

 newly discovered early Cornish inscriptions of considerable interest. 

 —One of these is at Tregoney, the other at Cubert. — The latter has 

 been well described and figured, together with the stones at Gulval 

 and St. Clement's, in Archceologia Cambrensis for October, 1863, 

 by the Eev. H. Longueville Jones, to whose pen and pencil we are 

 largely indebted for our knowledge of the inscribed stones of Wales; 

 and I shall presently avail myself of his notice, as we are permitted 

 to transfer the engraving to our pages. — These two stones have 

 some points in common, which may be most conveniently referred 

 to when they have been both described. 



The stone at Tregoney is placed at the south-west angle of the 

 Parish Church of Cuby, of which it forms the corner stone, immedi- 

 ately above the string course, which is just above the level of the 

 churchyard ; the inscription is on the west end. It is about 4|- feet 

 long, and nearly 2 feet wide, a block of hard porphyritic elvan, 

 with a siliceous surface, entirely different from the schistose river= 

 stone of which the rest of the wall is built. — The letters are rudely 

 and not very deeply cut, bdt there are no indications that they 

 have been much effaced by time or weather. The letter E at the 

 beginning of the fourth line, has been cut on an angular recess, 

 out of the general plane of the surface ; owing, probably, to the 

 chipping away under the tool of the piece of stone on which this 

 letter was originally incised. The rubbings shown in the museum, 

 •were taken by Mr. A. Paull and myself, and were very satisfactory ; 

 but we have more recently repeated the process, and I have also 

 drawn the inscription directly from the stone. 



Professor Westwood, of Oxford, whose authority is acknowledged 

 in this branch of archaeology, on being consulted, kindly drew out 

 the inscription on this stone from our rubbings, having reduced 

 it by means of the camera lucida. It is from this drawing that the 



