NOTES ON INSCRIBED STONES IN CORNWALL. 69 
A close examination and a rubbing of the stone convinced me 
that the inscription differs in some points, though not very mate- 
rially, from the generally received account of it. The F, appeared 
thus qj—upside-down.* In former illustrations of the stone I have 
seen it given non-inverted, of quite a different shape, and curved 
over to meet the top of the I. Dr. Borlase has so represented it,f 
and others have followed his example. He has also stated—“ Mr. 
“Moyle thinks that Rialobran was a heathen. It is true that 
“there is no cross at the beginning of the Inscription—I rather 
“think it a Christian Monument erected probably before it be- 
“came usual to place the cross before the name.” Notwith- 
standing this declaration, we at once perceived on visiting the 
stone, large crossing lines in the early part of the inscription. 
Dr. Barham and Mr. H. M. Whitley saw them with me. In the 
rubbing they distinctly appear. They are somewhat peculiarly 
placed,t but have the same appearance of great age which char- 
acterizes the letters. . 
I have sought to ascertain whether the cross-markings could 
have been added since Dr. Borlase published his interesting ac- 
count and engraving of the stone in 1754-69.—I find that they 
must have existed in his time: for, Martyn§ published (in his 
second-sized map) 20th April, 1749, in advance of Dr. Borlase, a 
sketch of the stone displaying these very marks—He also ‘‘dotted- 
in” the F, as being of a form he could not quite understand. 
Dr. Borlase, then, rightly expected to find a cross at the com- 
mencement of the inscription, but overlooked or failed to recog- 
nize anything of the kind. Nevertheless, the marks were there, 
and still remain, not as interpolations, but as having been, appa- 
rently, scriven when the letters were. 
-* So painted, but perhaps not really so cut—judging from the Rubbings. 
t Antiquities of Cornw., (Borlase), pp. 391, 394. Land’s-End Distr., 
(Edm.), <&c. 
{ See figure which I have drawn from rubbing, sketch, and photograph. 
§ Wallis’s Bod. Reg., pp. 106, 344, and Cornw. Reg., pp. 117, 118. 
