INSCRIBED STONES AND ANCIENT CROSSES OF DEVON. 
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for another sketch and measurement. He states that the stone, 
" as far back as its history can be traced, seems to have lain for 
centuries in the churchyard of Yealmpton village,' ' and that the 
inscription is " evidently the name of some Roman or Romanised 
Britain whose sepulture is commemorated. There has been, ,, he 
continues, "a suggestion that there was some connection between 
the bearer of this name and the Torey Brook at Plympton." 
The stone is of granite, and the inscribed face has been more 
carefully hewn than the other sides. 
The Rev. W. Iago, who has given some attention to the inscribed 
stones in Cornwall, says that this Yealmpton stone has been figured 
in the Gentleman's Magazine. He moreover thinks that the first 
letter is the Saxon G , not T , and that the name is 
" Goreus," and not " Toreus." 
Sir Edward Smirke {Trans. Royal Inst, of Cornwall, 1861, p. 
21) says that "it has been read differently by Polwhele and Mr. 
Westwood 99 in vol. viii. of the Archceological Journal. 
Hubner, in his Inscriptiones Britannia? Christiana? (p. 9), has given 
a figure of this stone, and interprets the legend as Goreus, but says, 
"Lectio non usquequaque certa," and represents a figure of a St. 
Andrew's cross on that portion of the stone which is beneath the 
ground, adding, " Crucis iacentis signum infra additum fortasse 
recentius est," giving as his authority the Archaeological Journal, 
1851, p. 424. 
