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Reference no. 1228996
Description: Te Deum Stone at NGR SD 96982307
Address: Te Deum Stone Long Causeway Blackshawhead Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire
Grade: II
Group detail: Langfield Common
Full description:
Single stone of uncertain date bears inscription to 2 adjoining faces the letters 'A' have a cross bar, characteristic of C17 script and may date from the C17.
Inscription reads:
(Left Face)
'I D'
(Right Face)
'T E,
D E U M,
L A U D A,
M U S,
T E'.
Upon the top of the shaft there are letters "BG, TB" (TB is upside down) which may possibly be boundary marks. It is on an ancient packhorse route.
Illustrated in A. Newell, A Hillside View of Industrial History, (Todmorden, 1925) p.42.
R. Heape, Inscribed and Dated Stones and Sundials in and adjoining the Ancient Parish of Rochdale (Cambridge, 1926) p.332.
