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Corpus volume reference: Vol 8 p. 289
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Appendix B item (Stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
A fragment with an inscription identified as a Norse personal name, in the possession of Mr T. Lord, Lower Winskill, Langcliffe, Settle, North Yorkshire, was at first attributed to a local discovery in Victoria cave, Settle — although the odd circumstances of its coming to light alongside finds from that cave were noted at the start — and the possibility of it being a missing fragment from the broken inscription Maeshowe 17, Orkney, has also been considered. In the most detailed discussion of the piece, Barnes (1996, 302–4) carefully disposed of all arguments attributing the piece to Settle. He also argued strongly against it being one of the missing fragments of Maeshowe 17, and also that it could be a contemporary work of the same carver. Instead, he supported the idea, now largely accepted, that it was a nineteenth-century copy, not intended to be a forgery, made either by James Farrer, the excavator of Maeshowe, who lived at Ingleborough, near Settle, or by someone in his circle.
