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Object type: Inscribed boulder
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 9 p. 148
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Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period)
Inscribed boulder. Found when ploughing area of Riley Hill in c. 1990 (Cootes 2006, 43). In possession of landowner at Old Hall Farm. The boulder, a glacial erratic, is decorated on one curved surface with a series of pocked lines. Cootes (2006, 43–4) suggested two possibilities for interpretation of the pocked lines: (a) a carving of Neolithic date; (b) a form of rune-related inscription. Though some elements could be interpreted as a combination of runic 'm' and 'th', this would not account for the totality of the form. It is perhaps just possible that this should be grouped with graffiti of the type know from caves in Fifeshire and Arran (Allen and Anderson 1903, iii, 370–4; Fisher 2001, 65–9). Date uncertain.
