INSCRIBED STONES AND ANCIENT CROSSES OF DEVON. 401 
SABINE STONE. 
Another of the stones, now standing in the rectory garden at 
Tavistock, was brought from the parish of Buckland Monachorum, 
where it did duty in supporting the roof of a blacksmith's shop. 
This monument is in tolerable preservation. A hole about six 
inches long by two wide and four deep is cut in the centre, and 
interferes with the inscription. And Mr. Bray argues, that as the 
terminal letters are made smaller than the others, in consequence 
of the excavation occupying a part of the position required by 
larger letters, it is quite evident that the hole must have been 
made in the stone anterior to the cutting of the inscription, con- 
sequently the stone must have been in use for some other purpose 
before it was made available for a rude stone monument. 
The inscription is, sabini fili maccodecheti (in memory of 
Sabinus the son of Odecheti, or Maccodocheti). 
The stone is about six feet eight inches above the ground, and 
one foot six inches wide. 
