. The Victoria history of the county of Cumberland. Natural history. A HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND Half a mile north of Barnspike, near Hazel Gill, another shepherd found more runes on a rock in 1872. Professor Stephens read— ASKR HRITA HEIL KIL HIMThlK/E HESSIL * Ask wrote this hill to Gil henchman to Hessil.' We can find no HESSIL on the stone, but we find the names Hessil and Gil in Hazel Gill or Hessil Gill hard by, and Ask at Askerton Castle. This finding of proper names in place-names was characteristic of the period and of Mr. Maughan, and the inscription seems to have been another practical
. The Victoria history of the county of Cumberland. Natural history. A HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND Half a mile north of Barnspike, near Hazel Gill, another shepherd found more runes on a rock in 1872. Professor Stephens read— ASKR HRITA HEIL KIL HIMThlK/E HESSIL * Ask wrote this hill to Gil henchman to Hessil.' We can find no HESSIL on the stone, but we find the names Hessil and Gil in Hazel Gill or Hessil Gill hard by, and Ask at Askerton Castle. This finding of proper names in place-names was characteristic of the period and of Mr. Maughan, and the inscription seems to have been another practical joke (see Early Sculptured Crosses of the Diocese of Carlisle, 1899, pp. 48—53). Bridekirk font bears runes of the twelfth century. The second The Bridekirk Runes. line is by no means clear, but the reading of W. Hamper (1820) and Professor Stephens does not seem to have been bettered— t RIKARTh HE ME IWROKT(E) & TO This MERThE GERNR ME BROKTE * Richard, he me wrought, and to this beauty carefully me brought.* At Dearham the ' Adam Slab,' already described, has beside the word ADAM a few broken runes. The Rev. W. S. Calverley communi-. •4 M*flT The Dearham Runes. cated them to Professor Stephens, who said that as later runes they would read HNI^RM, which means nothing : therefore he regarded them as early runes and read— (Krist S)U(L) GI-NI/ERA 'May-Christ his-SOUL N/ERE (save, bless)!' He dated the stone, from this reading, ' 850-950 ? ' but this date seems 280. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wilson, James, Vicar of Dalston. Westminster [A. Constable and company, limited]
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