The Victoria history of the county of Cornwall . rne . . Now preserved in the ruined church of St. Ninian.* The Rev. W. Jago considers that the Worthyvale stone has Ogam characters upon it, but as theymerely consist of some three or four doubtful notches, and the edge of the stone above and below themis quite clean, showing no further remains whatever, there does not seem to be very much foundationfor this theory, more especially since such an authority as Professor Rhys has described it to me as * adoubtful bit of Ogam. * Since the above was written the author has found a small incised Chi-Rh
The Victoria history of the county of Cornwall . rne . . Now preserved in the ruined church of St. Ninian.* The Rev. W. Jago considers that the Worthyvale stone has Ogam characters upon it, but as theymerely consist of some three or four doubtful notches, and the edge of the stone above and below themis quite clean, showing no further remains whatever, there does not seem to be very much foundationfor this theory, more especially since such an authority as Professor Rhys has described it to me as * adoubtful bit of Ogam. * Since the above was written the author has found a small incised Chi-Rho monogram 4^ incheshigh, and of the later form. It is cut on a jamb stone on the Norman south doorway at the church ofLanteglos by Fowey. Proc. Soc. Jntiq. Scot, ix, 586. Stuart, Sculptured Stones of Scotland, ii, pi. Ixxi. * Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot, ix, 578. Stuart, Sculptured Stones of Scotland, ii, pi. ixxviii. See also J. , Early Christian Monuments of Scotland (1903), 495, figs. 532, 533, 534. 412 EARLY CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS PLATE I.
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