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favour of an impression in gutta percha of the runes, wliich 
will most probably be found on tbe back of the ornament. 
Until this be discovered, the earliest Northumbrian Runic 
monument to which a date can be assigned, is a fragment of 
a cross at Collingham. I visited Collingham in January, 
1855, for the purpose of examining the crosses there, of which 
I had heard something, but not at all expecting to find an 
inscription. To my surprise I read quite plainly on the front 
of one of these the name A US WIN I, and, on examining 
the left-hand side, the word JEFT JEK not quite so plainly. 
My time being limited, I contented myself with taking 
rubbings, and giving my earliest attention to the study of 
these. After my return, I perceived that these inscriptions 
could not be complete, that there was space for one letter at 
least after ceftcer ; that Aimcini, a name in the nominative or 
accusative, could not depend on ceftcer, which would require 
a dative, and that there were traces of letters after it. A 
photograph, by Mr. Stansfeld, seemed to show traces of letters 
in another line ; and clay impressions, afterwards procured 
for me by Mr. Denny, gave me here and there a letter of 
a two -line inscription on each of the other sides. At 
the commencement I supplied the name QEDILBL^D, 
because it seemed to agree with the traces that remained of 
the letters. This, of course, was conjectural, for nothing in 
history could suggest the name, so as to set fancy to work to 
find something one might have wished to find ; but I am sorry 
to observe in the Report of the Proceedings of the Society, 
1856-7, that this name is given in PI. 3, as if I had clearly 
read it (quite inconsistently with the text at p. 513), and the 
more so because I have not preserved the tracings I made 
from the cast. On the left-hand side I found, as I thought, 
traces of G at the end of the first line, and of N — F B 
at intervals in the second. On the front I thought I could 
trace a second line faintly and read every letter. On the 
