A DANISH RUNIC STONE FOUND IN LONDON. 9 found; and to the North of it, a rude long hollow was scooped out, dipping from South to North at an angle of from 16° to 20°, containing the skeleton of a human being. The skull, with almost the whole of the bones, was thrown into the new excavation, and reburied; but the femur and tibia of one leg, with the tibia of the other, fortunately preserved, are in my possession, and at the service of the British Museum. The stone slab itself is of a rather friable oolite, pro- bably Bath. The dimensions, when complete, were 1 foot 10,1 inches wide by 2 feet 4^ inches long; 10| inches of the lower part being buried in the soil; the thickness was 4 inches at the upper, and 5 inches at the lower, imbedded, and roughly finished end. The exact size of the sunk panel containing the sculpture is 18^ inches by 13| inches. The faces of the sculpture itself are flat, and come up to the general surface plane of the slab; the interstices are sunk out to a depth of barely i of an inch, giving of course a relief to that amount. The only inscription is found on the left hand edge of the slab, and extends from the top to a little below the bottom of the sculpture panel. The characters , which are Bunic, are deeply incised, and indicate great antiquity of execution for the relic. It may be remarked that although the Runjc inscription is considered incomplete by several English scholars — yet that no trace whatever of any farther writing is to be dis- cerned upon the slab — the finish and entire preservation of which lead to the certain inference that no additional inscription did at any time exist upon it. And as to the missing fragment — as has been already noticed — it must have been entirely rough, and buried out of sight. 1 would direct attention moreover — as settling this doubt — to the terminal line upon the edge of the slab,

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