Proceedings . was founded probably by Athelstan in 939. It Early Sculptured Stone at West Camel Church. 81 may be iu point to note that Atlielstan ordered four stonecrosses to be set up to mark the bounds of the Sanctuary ofBeverley in Yorkshire, and these crosses are described asnohiliter insculpt<R. Thus work of this kind was going on aslate as Athelstans time. The deficiencies iu the designs ofthe West Camel stone are such as we should attribute to aperiod of stagnation or decay in artistic feeling, not to therudeness of youth with a great future before it; and I shouldbe inclined on a s
Proceedings . was founded probably by Athelstan in 939. It Early Sculptured Stone at West Camel Church. 81 may be iu point to note that Atlielstan ordered four stonecrosses to be set up to mark the bounds of the Sanctuary ofBeverley in Yorkshire, and these crosses are described asnohiliter insculpt<R. Thus work of this kind was going on aslate as Athelstans time. The deficiencies iu the designs ofthe West Camel stone are such as we should attribute to aperiod of stagnation or decay in artistic feeling, not to therudeness of youth with a great future before it; and I shouldbe inclined on a survey of all the circumstances to say thatthe shaft of which it has formed part may well have beendesigned and executed early in Athelstans reign. I mustleave those who wish to do so to suggest a special leaningtowards Dragonesque ornament on the part of the districtwhose men fouG-ht under the Draaon of Wessex. hli^-w Stries, Pol. XFI^ 1890, Part tl. Jnscribcct ^tonc on Minsfoi;(l lill BY JOHN LL. WARDEN VTTHEN on Exmoor last summer^ ^ I learnt that a stone withsome lettering which no one had beenable to decipher, was to be seen uponWinsford Hill. I had previouslyheard from Mr. W. Bidgood thatsuch a stone existed, and this ad-ditional information at once decidedme upon visiting the spot. But itwas not till the second visit that Iwas fortunate enough to discover thei stone. It stands by the side of anold road cutting off the angle madeby the road from Dulverton to Withypoole crossing that fromTarrs Steps to Winsford, and is of the ordinary local, hard,slaty rock, roughly shaped, and with the surface fairly height is three feet seven inches; the breadth fourteeninches, and the thickness seven. Across the middle runs adyke of quartz. The upper part (how much it is impossibleto say) has disappeared, thanks to the vandalism of a labourer,Avho, but three months before my visit, amused himself byknocking it off with his pick. The inscription is perpendicular, and cu
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