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Gentleman's Magazine 1855 part 1 p.619

  Bewcastle Cross
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Runes, Bewcastle Cross

At a meeting of the Archaeological Institute.
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The Rev. J. Maugham, of Bewcastle, sent careful drawings of the richly sculptured cross at that place, with a memoir on the Runes inscribed upon it, hitherto wholly unexplained, and now in great part legible through the results of an ingenious process long carried on under his care, in order to detach the lichens with which the stone is encrusted.
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