60 | NOTES ON INSCRIBED STONES IN CORNWALL. 
IT have carefully examined it. From its general appearance and 
the position in which it was found, we may conclude that origi- 
nally it stood somewhere in the vicinity, marking a place of early 
sepulture; that its massive proportions attracted the notice of 
those who were beginning to build the Church, and they, per- 
ceiving that it would be serviceable for the work, removed it from 
its site and imbedded it in the base of the sacred structure. 
There for centuries it lay forgotten ; but now, once more erect, it 
stands—not far off—by a house in the churchyard, and, despite 
the vicissitudes of a thousand years, its time-worn legend can still 
be traced. 
sina i sf 
Ds \\v 
The letters are cut, in two lines, down the front of the stone. 
The inscribed portion is tolerably smooth, and stands forward 
beyond the adjacent parts, which are amnalh and uneven. The 
lettered surface (now 29 inches in length by 17 inches in breadth) 
was perhaps formerly more extensive. It appears to have been 
cribbed and broken away till only the central portion (on which 
the words Clotuali and Mogratti are inscribed) remains. If, how- 
ever, it be thought that no material diminution by a succession of 
