Volume 7: South West England

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Overview
National Grid Reference of Place of Discovery
Present Location
Unknown
Evidence for Discovery
Noted by John Aubrey in the seventeenth century: 'Tis said here there were some letters on these stones, but what they were I cannot learn' (quoted by Hoare 1812, 198). Claimed to be runic by Stephens in his introduction to the introduction to the English section of Old-Northern Runic Monuments, vols. I-II (1866-7,36), but rejected by Page 1969; 1995).
Church Dedication
Present Condition
Unknown
Description
Discussion

Appendix C item (lost stones for which no illustration has survived).

There is no firm evidence as to the nature of the inscription which Aubrey noted, and which no subsequent commentator appears to have seen. In the light of Page's scepticism about this piece it seems best to regard it as very doubtful.

Date
Uncertain
References
Hoare 1812, 198; Stephens 1866–7, 360; Shore 1906, 43; Marquardt 1961, 10; Page 1969, 29; Page 1995, 162
Endnotes
None

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