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Rude stone monuments in all countries : their age and uses (1872)

Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · London, J. Murray · leaf 271

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one of the loose stones lying-in the foreground on woodcut No. 88, it consists of only four letters,and reads either HIAI or IKIH, according as it is turned oneway or another. As it is impossible to make a recognisable word,much less sense out of such a combination, it is no wonder it wasthrown… … 87. Plan and Section of Maes-Howe. From Mr. Farrers work. have idly engraved these Eunes on a loose stone, but nothing morelikely than that a mason who hewed the stone and fitted it toclose the loculus exactly, would have put a mark upon itto show that it belonged to the right-hand chamber in…

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