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inscription, if, as seems likely, it was continued round the 

 circle. They are perfectly legible, reading — blagc-man. 

 The stroke between the C and M may be accidental, or it 

 may be a punctuation sign. If forming one word, 

 this would make a known Anglo-Saxon name. The 

 rest of the Manks inscriptions are in the later Scandinavian 

 runes of the tenth to the thirteenth century. 



Fig. 31. Cross from Calf of Man. 



The earlier pieces are of unhewn stone, and bear on 



one or both faces incised crosses of different forms (fig. 

 24). Later, we find the crosses sculptured in relief, and 

 the stones more or less elaborately decorated, " a regular 

 development may be observed from the most simple plait 

 and twist to the most complex and beautiful geometric 

 designs, and then from the geometric to the zoomorphic 



