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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
THE INSCEIBED STONES AND ANCIENT CEOSSES 
OF DEVON. 
Part II. 
BY MR. C. SPENCE BATE, F.R.S. 
LUSTLEIGH STONE. 
This stone is figured in Lysons' Magna Britannia, vol. v. 
(Devonshire) p. 309, and is copied therefrom in his Inscriptions 
Britannia Christians (Devonshire), p. 11, hy Hiibner, who says, 
" Lectio incerta." 
It lies at this time as when Lysons observed it, at the door of 
the main entrance into Lustleigh Church. 
The stone is four feet long by fourteen inches wide ; the extreme 
ends are covered by the two pilasters that form the doorway. 
The door is double, and as one half only appears to be generally 
open, the stone at the eastern end is the more worn and polished, 
so that the inscription is gradually becoming less distinct, the last 
letter in the second row being entirely obliterated since Lysons 
described, in 1822. 
Having recently examined the stone, and compared the drawing 
then made with care upon the spot with Lysons' figure, I feel 
assured that the two first letters of the inscription represent "c" and 
'"a." The former of these Lysons distinctly figures as "d"; but the 
markings on the surface of the stone above the body of the letter 
appear to be without design, and it accordingly reads, " catvidoc 
conrino," to which Lysons adds the letter "e" as the termination of 
the second word. The stone lies imbedded in mortar outside the 
wooden door-sill of the church, and is trodden by all who enter. 
