214 THE EIGHT REV. BISHOP G. FORREST BROWNE. D.D.. ON 



in the open air by such men as Colmnba and Pieran. whose tomb 

 I hare seen in the niins of that small simple British church which 

 lay overwhelmed by sea sand for 300 years until it was dug out 

 by Haslam about eighty years ago. 



Dr. iScHOFiELD said that they had too few archaeological papers, 

 and that the Society were much indebted to Dr. Forrest Browne 

 for his interesting lecture on early monumental art lq England, 

 and that he trusted we should have another paper on a similar 

 subject before long. His remarkable interpretation of Ogam in 

 its origin was somewhat new. His history of this antique script, 

 consisting of incised lines on the edges of slabs of stone, was very 

 interesting. The subject is most obscure, and some have gone 

 so far as to connect the scripts of music with that of Ogam. It 

 was his good fortune to know a widow lady, Mrs. Jones, who had 

 a large farm near »Saundersfoot in South Wales. In the next 

 field to the garden stood a stone post that had been used as a 

 rubbing-post by the cattle for centuries. One day, however, a 

 savant calling there, examined the post and found a long Ogam 

 inscription on one side, and a later one on the other in Latin. He 

 deciphered them and found the stone was a monument erected 

 to the memory of a famous British prince who mled that part of 

 Wales. The Latin inscription also stated the same. From the 

 date, however, the inscription appeared untrue, inasmuch as by 

 then the British prince had been superseded by the Roman Govern- 

 ment. It was found, however, by research that the Roman 

 historian, while stating this fact, makes one exceprion, and names the 

 British prince whose name is on this stone as bein^ so distinguished 

 by his wise rule that he continued to reign. Xeedless to say that 

 in late years hundreds from America and elsewhere have visited 

 the stone, and very large sums have been ofiered for it, but it still 

 stands where it did, with a fence round it. 



Air. James Gray said that his interest in Cehic monuments in 

 Scotland lay in rather a difierent direction from that in which lay 

 those dealt with by the Lecturer, as he had given more attention 

 to the relics of pagan than of Christian times in Scotland. He 

 desired, however, to add a few words as to the cross at Ruthwell 

 in Dumfries-shire, which he had studied, and which the Lecturer 



