56 ANCIENT INSCRIBED STONES. 



** between this inscription and several in Wales. — The form of the 

 " A, too, is common to this stone, and to one found near Cwmdu, 

 " in Brecknockshire. — The M is found also on Welsh stones ; but the 

 " R presents the peculiarity of the horizontal bar, observed in the 

 " inscription at St. Clement's.* There appears to be no contraction 

 "on this stone, and the most recent of the forms shown by the 

 "letters are those of the G and the M." 



THE CUBERT STONE. 



On this reading I would only venture to suggest a doubt whether 

 the letter accepted as G, do not rather represent j or Y; the more so, be- 

 cause there is little reason to suspect Saxon influence in this case. 



The inscription may be regarded as including the names, either 

 of two, or of three individuals. Under the former interpretation, 

 the stone would be the monument of Conetocus, the sou of Teger- 

 nomalus; while, by the latter, Mali would indicate a distinct person. 

 — I owe to the Eev. J. Game the suggestion, that " the name of 

 " Gonetoc, on the Cubert stone, may possibly be recognized as that of 

 " S. Gwinedoc or Enodoc, to whose memory there is a Chapel in the 



* A valuable service -would be rendered by the publication of an alphabet, 

 giving all the forms of the several letters found in early British inscriptions, 

 with references to the stones on which they occur. — The materials for such 

 a-n epigi-aphic conspectus are now within easy reach. — C. B. 



