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The Wroxeter Stone is a stone unearthed at Wroxeter, England, in 1967.[1] It bears an inscription in an Insular Celtic language, identified by the Celtic Inscribed Stones Project (CISP) at UCL as "partly-Latinized Primitive Irish".[2]

Inscription

The text of the inscription reads:[1] CVNORIX | MACVSM/A | QVICO[L]I[N]E

This is traditionally rendered into words as:[2] CVNORIX MACVS MAQVI COLINE

Translation:[2] Cunorix son of Maqui Coline, where Cunorix and Maqui Coline are personal names.

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Notes

  1. ^ a b Wright, R.P. and Jackson, K.H. (1968) `A Late Inscription from Wroxeter', The Antiquaries Journal, 48, part 2, pp. 296-300
  2. ^ a b c CISP database, 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/stone/wrxtr_1.html', recovered 14 Sep 2014
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