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Object type: Inscribed stones
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 149
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Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
Inscribed stones. Okasha (2004, nos. 235 and 236) lists and illustrates two stones carrying inscriptions in capitals. These were first mentioned in 1888 when in the hearse house near West Kirby church (Watkin 1888, 182); they are now lost. Collingwood and Wright (1965, nos. 2369 and 2386) catalogued them as Roman inscriptions and this seems reasonable given that one has an opening line reading DM and the other may have read [LEG]. Okasha's listing of them as Anglo-Saxon depends upon Haverfield's judgement that they were post-Roman (Haverfield 1892, 296; id. 1913, 554). There seems no reason to reject the view of Collingwood and Wright.
