# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

**Source image:** `20260219_115334.jpg`  
**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

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A Sketch of a Beam or Bar of Oak
with an inscription found in the Wall
of Castle Rushen by the workmen
when repairing the Castle in 1816; and
which is now in the poſseſsion of
Lieut. Governor Smelt.

[A sketch of the end of a beam/bar is drawn here, showing what appears to be carved letters/numbers including "A 6" and "3" within a hexagonal end grain shape, enclosed in a rectangular outline]

Note
The Antiquity of this inscription naturally
leads many to be Sceptical in the belief
of its being genuine. It has with great
probability refered to two origins viz
That it is the inscription which was
deposited in the wall at the time that
the Castle was building for the same
Reasons that coins are at the present
Day; or that the Beam on which it is
cut was the Bar of a gateway long since

MS 09707/8/66

AP 147-20