INSCRIBED STONES AND ANCIENT CEOSSES OF DEVON. 399 
FARDEL STONE. 
The next stone to which I shall draw attention is that which 
was found some few years since lying over a little brook close to 
Fardel farm-house, once the mansion and inheritance of the family 
of the celebrated Ealeigh. We are indebted for the preservation 
of this interesting stone to the care of the late Sir Edward Smirke, 
who gave a description of it in the Transactions of the Royal Insti- 
tution of Cornwall for 1861. It is to this article I am indebted 
for most of the information respecting it. The stone has been 
removed through his instrumentality from the yard at Fardel to 
the British Museum, where it is now preserved. It is six feet three 
inches long, two feet ten inches broad, and seven inches thick. 
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