# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

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of the most eminent for a century
previous to the Period spoken of and
they of course directed every thing
connected with letters when the knowledge
of them was so limited as it then was.
The Letters of the inscription being cut
in mosaic is another proof of its
antiquity, it would be no mean specimen
of the art of carving in wood as it
existed in this Island in the middle
ages and set aside the Idea that
it might have been meant merely to
mark the number of the Log of timber
when it is recollected that it was found
in the centre of a wall 9 feet in
thickness of very solid masonry, that
notion as well as every other of
the same frivolous nature becomes
ridiculous
If it is allowed to endeavour to
explain the Letters E & C I would inter-
pret them "Castrum Edificatum" and