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ST at the end of the first line undoubtedly had EAN added 

 to it for the word 'stone;' another word followed the letters 

 TUKI. It is unfortunate that this portion is lost, because 

 with it probably the whole sentence might have been read. 

 The inscription is probably of the tenth, or early in the 

 eleventh, century." 



Such is the information given me by Mr. Saull, as derived 

 from friends of his own competent to give opinion on the sub- 

 ject. As to the non-completion of the inscription, I have myself 

 a strong opinion formed, from a close inspection of the relic now 

 in my possession, that no further writing ever existed upon it. 

 It has been suggested that the imperfect record was completed 

 upon another slab, possibly a foot-stone to the same grave, of 

 which the slab in question formed the head-stone. 



A writer to the Illustrated London News, I may add, 

 gives the word TUKI as a proper name, but otherwise reads 

 the characters as above described. 



