70 NOTES ON INSCRIBED STONES IN CORNWALL. 
THE Sr. BREOCK STONES. 
. 
Mr. Christopher Cooke has lately announced * that the ancient 
Burial-kist known as “ Druid’s Altar,” in St. Breock parish, seems 
to have disappeared. This, ] am happy to state, is a mistake. 
The stones are well-preserved and form a most imposing group,t 
the covering stone being of great thickness. In the same neigh- 
bourhood I saw several large Barrows, and the Menhirs, “Stone” 
and “Great Stone”—on commanding sites upon the Down; as 
well as the slab which Mr. Cooke (perhaps rightly) calls the top 
stone of a Cromlech. 
At Nanscowe, in this parish, is an Inscribed Stone—not until 
now, I believe, figured in any Cornish work. I have therefore 
made a sketch and rubbing of it to illustrate this paper. The 
letters run to a large size (being from 3} to 8 inches high), they 
* Antiquary, Vol. ii, p. 35, Feb. 10, 1872, &e. ‘ 
{ Frontisp. of Warner's Tour through Cornwall, 1808, and pp. 322-8. 
See also Mr. Whitley’s notice of it, with Plate, &. I. C. Report 1840, 
p. 30. 
