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(A) Since this paper was written (1876), Pembrokeshire has pro- 

 duced another bilingual monument, at Trefgarn, near Haverfordwest. 

 It had been visited by the late Mr. Brash, and will appear shortly in 

 his posthumous work on Ogham literature, but was first made known 

 to the world by Mr. E. Allen (" Archseologia Cambrensis," 1876). 

 Its inscriptions are 



N0CX1VIS FILI 

 DEMETI 



noctrene 

 " The titulus of her son 1ST. a Demetian. N. placed it." 



Noctene, probably herself of the Gaelic race, but wedded to a 

 Demetian Briton, took care to express on his monument the race to 

 which her son belonged, as heir to his father's blood. 



(B) The Ogham inscriptions recently discovered on the islands and 

 mainland of Scotland, all later than the conquest by Fergus Mac Ere, 

 a. n. 502, are destitute of inflectional forms even internal. Thus, in 

 the inscription from Aboyne, 



m&<] <\ o r&tl nop p h, 



we have neither r&topci nor c&toipc. It seems clear, then, that 

 vn&qqo can be nothing else than "daughter." In the second line 

 of the same inscription, 



n eA 1ihc p&p o bb&c c e& n n e pp, 



ne&hhu = ne.6.ct), "family" or "tribe"; p&, "towards," "under"; 

 po, characteristic of the praeterite ; b&c = b<yo, " was" ; therefore, 

 p&pobb^c = subfuit; ce&rmepp, still the name of a place in the 

 same district. 



" Daughter of T." 

 " She was joined to (married into) the tribe of C." 



This is nearly parallel to the Penmachno inscription ; and this 

 and many others in which we have " son " or " daughter " unnamed, 

 may be compared with records in the chronicles, such as " a. d. 

 dclxxiv Mors filii Pante " (Ulster and Tighearnach). 



The Cunningsburgh inscription 



p o m <] o p e n e 



has another clear instance of m(&)<jo. 



