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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
This was the first stone found in England with an Ogham in- 
scription. A few have been noticed in Scotland, and also in Wales, 
where the inscription of the stone at St. Dogmaels assimilates to 
this. It also shows an interesting interchange of the Roman Filius 
with the Irish Mac, for while the Eoman inscription on the face reads 
" Sangranus filius Cunotami," 
the Ogham writing on the margin of the stone is 
" Sangramnus maqi Cunotami." 
On the Fardel stone before us, the Maq is introduced both in the 
Roman and the Ogham inscriptions. 
On one side of the stone is engraven the word " Sangranui," and 
on the other "Fanoni Maqvirini;" but it has been read somewhat 
differently in the Ogham inscription, where the fifth letter appears 
to be equivalent to "q" and the seventh to "c." The "u" is 
moreover omitted, as it does not necessarily follow the letter " q," 
as is the case in the Eoman language. Thus instead of Maqvirini, 
we have Maqiqici ; or, as Mr. Brash thinks it not impossible that 
portions of the fifth symbol may have been destroyed, and conse- 
quently it might have corresponded with the letter in the Eoman 
inscription, it would read Maqirici. Thus we have a record to the 
memory of Fanonus, the son of Yirinus, in the Eoman inscription, 
and of Fanon, the son of Iricus, in the other. 
The interest which these stones have exists in the fact that the 
symbol of another language — the Gadelic, or ancient Erse, or Irish 
language — once existed here. 
Hiibner in his Inscriptiones Britannia Christiana (p. 9) has given 
the legend as slightly different, and writes, "Fanoni reliqui et 
imago mea eos secuta ; sed quod I. Ehys me monuit, scilicet Fanoni 
clare legit, confirmaverunt a me rogati amici musei Eritannici. ,, — 
A. W. Franks et A. S. Munay. 
"Literas Celticas Ehys nunc et ita legit; Svaqquci maqi Qici 
putatque nomen Svaqquci componendun esse cum chwap, quick 
hodierno." 
