26 A DANISH RUNIC STONE FOUND IN LONDON. ring on many of the ancient gold bracteates occasionally found in the northern countries. “This monument is unique in its kind, the only Danish Rune-stone known to exist in England, and owes its pre- servation to its long inhumation. The stile of the Runes etc., shows that it is not of the very earliest class, and still less of the very latest. I should be inclined to place it in the tenth or eleventh century. Perhaps further diggings would have brought out similar treasures, or at least the contents of the tomb itself. It is to be hoped that the original will immediately be presented to our noble national Museum, where it will worthily commence the series of inscribed British grave-monuments. The Danish must have been a powerful element in our old English race, when its chiefs could lie in our metropolis unharmed, and with their native memorials about them. There is nothing in the stone which would lead us to suppose the deceased or his friends to have been Christians. Should the British Museum be refused this magnificent memorial, which I cannot bring myself to believe, it should at least secure a perfect cast, before the surface is injured by accident or the action of the air.” The hope here expressed by the correspondent seems not to have been fulfilled, in as much as a Report of the meeting of the Arcbaiological Institute on the 4th February 1853 states that an ‘‘application had been made in vain to ob- tain this remarkable relic for the British Museum; the pre- sent possessor having resolved to have it fixed up in his warehouse, an object of attraction, probably, to customers.’’ As to the above remark, that “there is nothing on the stone which would lead us to suppose the deceased or his friends to have been Christians”, it is with regard to the sculptured figures perfectly just; but here we ought at the same time to observe that the same taste which pre- vailed in the North during the last period of paganism was

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